High Performance Computing Systems Administrator

Job Description

Position Title: High Performance Computing Systems Administrator

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity located in Broomfield, CO.

Job Responsibilities:

• Server Maintenance: Oversee the configuration, installation, and upgrades of hardware and software, ensuring compliance with security policies and procedures.
• Documentation: Keep thorough documentation of network server configurations, application licensing agreements, and third-party software.
• Support and Monitoring: Provide on-call support, monitor infrastructure proactively, and resolve issues promptly.
• Software and Hardware Testing: Participate in testing new software and hardware.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the Application and Development teams to onboard new team members. Provide real-time training and maintain/improve existing development pipelines that utilize HPC clusters.
  
  
  

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 10 plus years proven experience in a similar role
• Relevant experience may be considered in liu of required education
• Experiencing deploying/maintaining on-prem HPC Clusters
• Experience deploying/maintain of HPC Clusters in cloud environments
• Experience with slurm/pbs/torque schedulers
• Experience running Monte Carlo simulations
• Experience with high speed networks (Intel Omnipath, Nvidia Infiniband)
• Experience nfs and parallel file sytems (Beegfs/Lustre)
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Scripting experience (Bash, python)
• Basic understanding of cybersecurity principles and practices, focusing on engineering and technical solutions
  
  
  

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• Experience with virtual python/conda environments
• Experience with Red Hat Identity Management (IDM) or FreeIPA
• Experience with Nvidia GPUs
• Working knowledge of Puppet/Chef/Ansible
• Experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps.
• Experience with Singularity Containers
  
  
  

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Location: Broomfield, CO.
• Pay Rate Range: $60-83/hr.
• ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C.
• 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
  
  
  

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.