HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer
GDIT· enterprise· Defense IT· Sep 1, 2026 · 2mo ago
Springfield, VA
In office
Full-time
Senior
$120K–$162K
5+ years exp
Job description
Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret/SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Cluster Administration, Infrastructure Optimization, Storage Area Network (SAN) Management Certifications:
None Experience:
5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
Position Summary
We are seeking an Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer to manage the administration, health, and performance of the foundational compute environment under the User Facing and Data Center Services (UDS) contract at GDIT. 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.
Key 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.
Basic Qualifications:
Clearance: Active TS/SCI with the ability to obtain CI Poly.
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 Qualifications:
Familiarity with parallel file systems and high-throughput storage architectures.
Prior experience engineering or managing high-speed GPU-to-GPU communication topologies.
Location: Springfield, VA
US Citizenship Required
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
● 401K with company match
● Comprehensive health and wellness packages
● Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
● Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
● Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
● Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
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The likely salary range for this position is $119,850 - $162,150. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
None
T elecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA VA Springfield
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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