Senior DevOps Engineer- Linux, HPC
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
$50 to $60 CAD / hour · Contract
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- Pay
- $50 to $60 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
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- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Linux Systems Engineering role
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer- Linux, HPC
Location: Vancouver
Work Arrangement: Hybrid-3 days/ week
Employment Type: Contract
Pay Rate: CAD 50-60/hour
Application Deadline: Oct. 30th, 2026
Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Linux Systems Engineering role
- Hands-on HPC cluster administration experience, including SLURM or equivalent workload managers
- Demonstrated experience supporting EDA or scientific computing environments
- Strong Ansible automation skills with production-grade playbook and role development
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning tools (RackN, Cobbler, or equivalent)
- Proven ability to plan and execute datacenter or infrastructure migrations with minimal disruption
- Familiarity with enterprise Linux identity and authentication stacks (SSSD, LDAP, AD, NIS, Okta)
- Experience with NetApp or comparable enterprise storage platforms in HPC contexts
- Ability to author formal technical documentation (MOPs, runbooks, architecture diagrams)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; capable of coordinating across multiple teams
- Experience with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and/or 15 in an enterprise environment
EEOC Compliance:
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.
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Responsibilities
Administer Linux HPC clusters and support EDA or scientific computing environments, including workload management, automation, provisioning, identity services, and enterprise storage. Plan and execute infrastructure migrations with minimal disruption, and produce technical documentation while coordinating across teams.
Requirements
Requires at least five years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or Linux systems engineering, with hands-on HPC administration experience using SLURM or an equivalent workload manager. Candidates should have strong Ansible skills, experience with enterprise Linux and storage, bare-metal provisioning and infrastructure migrations, and the ability to communicate and document technical work; SLES 12 and/or 15 experience is also sought.
Skills
- DevOps
- Linux Systems Engineering
- HPC Cluster Administration
- SLURM
- EDA And Scientific Computing
- Ansible
- Bare-Metal Provisioning
- Infrastructure Migration
- Linux Identity And Authentication
- SSSD
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- NIS
- Okta
- NetApp Storage
- Technical Documentation
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
Keywords
- DevOps
- Platform Engineering
- Linux Systems Engineering
- High-Performance Computing
- HPC Cluster Administration
- SLURM
- EDA
- Scientific Computing
- Ansible
- Playbooks
- Roles
- Bare-Metal Provisioning
- RackN
- Cobbler
- Infrastructure Migration
- Datacenter Migration
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- SLES 12
- SLES 15
- SSSD
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- NIS
- Okta
- NetApp
- Enterprise Storage
- Technical Documentation
- Runbooks
- Architecture Diagrams
- MOPs