HPC-Focused IT DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps engineer on Apple's Hardware Methodologies, Tool, & Solutions (HMTS) Platform team, you play a crucial role in bridging the gap in traditional Information Technology (IT) infrastructure development and operations. Your work is instrumental in providing the world's best design environment for Hardware Engineering, aligning with our mission to lead in hardware innovation.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying infrastructure products that are at the core of our operations. Your work helps us plan, code, build, test, deploy, operate, and monitor our Infrastructure-as-Code solutions for High-Performance Compute (HPC) server infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy infrastructure products
• Plan, code, build, test, deploy, operate, and monitor Infrastructure-as-Code solutions for HPC server infrastructure
• Maintain and improve HPC deployment automation
• Develop new automation to add customer and partner value
• Work with virtualization technologies for compute nodes
• Maintain and configure high-performance compute environments, including cloud-based systems and local physical/virtual systems

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 5-10 years of Linux administration experience
• Strong understanding of HPC environments and technologies
• Experience with schedulers such as SLURM
• Familiarity with parallel computing paradigms (e.g., MPI)
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible)
• Knowledge of containerized applications and HPC environments

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Customer-focused mindset
• Time management and prioritization skills
• Willingness to learn and focus on continuous self-improvement

Join Apple's Hardware team and contribute to the development of cutting-edge HPC infrastructure that powers innovation in hardware engineering.