HPC DevOps Engineer

🇺🇸 Hybrid - NC 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $105K - $110K 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ July 24th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a HPC DevOps Engineer. This role involves designing, deploying, operating, and maintaining High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Throughput Computing (HTC) services to support advanced academic research. The engineer will lead projects, collaborate with faculty and researchers, and manage ancillary systems such as storage, networking, containers, and monitoring tools.

Highlights

Design, build, and operate HPC and HTC computing services and related infrastructure.

Manage ancillary systems including high-speed storage, networking, containers, databases, and orchestration services.

Proficiency in Linux systems administration, including automation tools like Cobbler, SALT, or Ansible.

Experience with enterprise storage platforms, monitoring, logging, and maintaining OS security and compliance.

Strong leadership and communication skills for engaging with researchers and managing complex projects.

Minimum qualifications: Master’s degree with 1-2 years experience or Bachelor’s degree with 2-4 years experience in related fields.

Preferred experience includes InfiniBand HPC clusters, multi-petabyte storage management, infrastructure automation, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Opensearch, or Splunk.