Sr. Bare Metal Linux Engineer (GPU Bare Metal)
Posted 1 day ago by 1763118680
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Sr. Bare Metal Linux Engineer (GPU Bare Metal) role focuses on supporting GPU Bare Metal and GPU VM products, requiring expertise in Linux systems, automation, and AI/ML DevOps. The position involves orchestrating bare metal Linux systems, performance testing, and collaborating with hardware engineering teams. Strong communication skills are essential for documentation and knowledge sharing. The role is remote and offers a long-term engagement of over 12 months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provisioning and automating GPU Bare Metal deployments
- Assist customer support and CloudOps teams with GPU specific knowledge/debugging during customer escalations
- Performance testing, analysis and monitoring
- Firmware, BIOS, Kernel upgrades and testing
- Accelerate the virtualization of next generation GPU enabled platforms that power AI/ML workloads
- Work with hardware engineering teams and vendors to validate GPU fabric performance
- Collaborate with open-source Linux, QEMU and libvirt communities to drive the evolution of Linux virtualization technologies
- Backport, build, and deploy software patches to support new features and resolve security issues
Key Skills:
- Bare Metal, Open-Source Virtualization (QEMU/KVM etc.), Linux/Unix
- Automation/Orchestration (Puppet/Chef/Ansible etc.), DevOps, AI/ML
- Proven ability to orchestrate bare metal Linux systems at scale
- Deep Linux systems experience including troubleshooting network interfaces
- Strong automation mindset with expert knowledge in orchestration tools
- Strong communication skills for documentation and knowledge sharing
- Hands-on experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) clustered environments
- Network engineering experience with VyOS platforms
- Strong understanding of Linux based operating systems
- Deep experience with QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel and libvirt
- Strong proficiency in C
- Knowledge of proprietary services and their intersection with virtualization stack
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Sr. Bare Metal Linux Engineer (GPU Bare Metal)
Location: Remote
Duration: 12+ months
Required Key Skills: Bare Metal, Open-Source Virtualization (QEMU/KVM etc.), Linux/Unix, Automation/Orchestration (Puppet/Chef/Ansible etc.), DevOps, AI/ML
We need engineers skilled in multiple areas here to support both GPU Bare Metal and GPU VM products. We also need engineers skilled in AI/ML DevOps and Linux Sysadmins.
GPU Bare Metal
Required Skills
- Proven ability to orchestrate bare metal linux systems at scale including building automation for firmware updates, bios config management, configuring PXE environments.
- Deep Linux systems experience including troubleshooting network interfaces, developing and applying configuration management, security best practices and monitoring and alerting.
- Strong automation mindset. Expert knowledge in 1 or more orchestration tools such as MaaS, Salt, Chef, Ansible or Puppet.
- Strong communication skills. Your job will involve writing detailed documentation for others to pick up or leading knowledge sharing sessions with operations teams.
- Bonus skills include:
- Hands-on experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) clustered environments from Nvidia or AMD. Experience in performing automated wide scale testing on NCCL or other frameworks.
- Network engineering experience with VyOS platforms.
What You'll Be Working On:
- Provisioning and automating GPU Bare Metal deployments
- DevOps - Assist customer support and CloudOps teams with GPU specific knowledge/debugging during customer escalations
- Performance testing, analysis and monitoring
- Firmware, BIOS, Kernel upgrades and testing
GPU Virtual Machines
Required Skills
- Strong understanding of Linux based operating systems
- Deep experience with the internals of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel and libvirt. Strong proficiency in C.
- Strong knowledge of DO's proprietary services and how they intersect with our virtualization stack.
What You'll Be Working On:
- Accelerate the virtualization of next generation GPU enabled platforms that power AI/ML workloads.
- Work with hardware engineering teams and vendors to validate GPU fabric performance. Optimize performance while maintaining DO's high security standards.
- Collaborate with open-source Linux, QEMU and libvirt communities to drive the evolution of Linux virtualization technologies and incorporate them into the DO fleet.
- Backport, build, and deploy software patches in order to support new features, backport bug fixes, and resolve security issues.