We are seeking an Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer to manage the administration, health, and performance of the foundational compute environmen. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end administration of a dedicated customer compute cluster. Your primary mission is to ensure a highly available, secure, and optimized hardware foundation. By maintaining a robust infrastructure, you will directly contribute to the critical technology integration and performance engineering efforts, ensuring a highly reliable platform for integrating and executing complex customer workloads.
Here, your work is more than a job- it's a journey in innovation. With opportunities to work on high-impact projects, access to the latest technologies, and a culture that thrives on creativity and collaboration, INflow Federal is where your expertise can truly make a difference.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Cluster Administration: Manage the day-to-day operations of the customer compute cluster, including Linux operating system administration, hardware monitoring, patching, and system upgrades.
- Resource and Job Management: Configure, maintain, and optimize workload management and orchestration platforms, utilizing the Run:AI job scheduler to ensure efficient distribution of intensive AI/ML workloads across the cluster.
- Infrastructure Optimization: Tune cluster performance at the hardware, operating system, and network levels to maximize compute efficiency and data throughput for customer workloads.
- Storage and Network Management: Administer storage solutions and high-speed networking fabrics. Support the transition to and ongoing management of an InfiniBand GPU-to-GPU network infrastructure to minimize latency for distributed operations.
- Environment Configuration: Partner with technology integration teams to provision specific environments, dependencies, and container platforms, specifically leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, required for seamless customer model deployment.
- Security and Compliance: Ensure all infrastructure components remain compliant with federal security standards, implementing strict access controls and maintaining system accreditations.
Required Skills:
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and infrastructure management with a specific focus on high-performance computing environments.
- Technical Skills:
- Expertise in managing bare-metal servers, enterprise storage arrays, and advanced network configurations (Experience with InfiniBand).
- Strong proficiency with workload managers, job schedulers, and AI orchestration tools (e.g., Run:AI, SLURM).
- Hands-on experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms, specifically OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Experience writing automation and configuration scripts (e.g., Bash, Python) to streamline cluster maintenance.
- Troubleshooting Focus: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware, network, and OS-level issues.
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with parallel file systems and high-throughput storage architectures.
- Prior experience engineering or managing high-speed GPU-to-GPU communication topologies.
Other Notes
- Some travel may be required: Must have valid driver’s license and transportation. This is subject to change at the direction of the customer.
- If accommodation is needed with your application or the interview process for applicants with disabilities, please contact Human Resources at 703-594-8601.
- Candidate must have the ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Must have willingness to perform duties not listed in the job description as required by INflow and our customer.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and infrastructure management focused on high-performance computing environments
- Experience managing bare-metal servers, enterprise storage arrays, and advanced network configurations, including InfiniBand
- Proficiency with workload managers, job schedulers, and AI orchestration tools such as Run:AI and SLURM
- Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes
- Experience writing Bash or Python automation and configuration scripts
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware, network, and operating-system issues
- Familiarity with parallel file systems and high-throughput storage architectures
- Experience engineering or managing high-speed GPU-to-GPU communication topologies
- US citizenship
- Valid driver's license and transportation
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds
- Willingness to perform additional duties as required
- DoD 8140 compliance or applicable cybersecurity certification requirements
What We Do
INflow Federal was founded in 2013. The “INflow difference” begins with a simple belief encompassing the importance of employee culture. We are obsessed with our people and have demonstrated year-over-year that our employee-focused approach leads to customer success. As a leading Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) innovator, we offer proven expertise in Network Modernization, Cybersecurity, Digital Modernization and Joint Force Mission Operations. We serve our federal government customers in over 20 states domestically to include the United States Navy (USN), United States Marine Corps (USMC), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and Joint Forces. At INflow, US Military Veterans have continuously paved the path ahead for our customers. We developed a homegrown “Veteran Outreach Program” focused around attracting and hiring transitioning military personnel and has resulted in veterans representing over 50% of our company. Simplifying the customer experience requires everyone within our organization to work together. Our leadership communicates transparently with our team on a regular basis with a commitment to do the right thing for all those we serve. Our customers recognize doing business with INflow means working with people who consistently deliver with agility, passion and integrity. This is how INflow continues to evolve, grow and accompany our customers into the future of mission systems and operations. Visit us at www.INflowFed.com.
