Full Time
Category: Data Center
Company: Sustainable Talent
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Posted 1 month ago
Expires on: April 25, 2026

Sustainable Talent

We are seeking a high-level UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer to architect, own, and operate our next-generation, on-premise private cloud and GPU compute infrastructure supporting global engineering teams in Hillsboro, OR. This is a strategic, deep-technical systems architect position responsible for designing, scaling, and optimizing a world-class HPC/GPU datacenter environment.
 
You will drive end-to-end systems design, oversee compute, network, and storage architecture, and take full ownership of reliability, automation, performance, and deep multi-layer troubleshooting across thousands of nodes running bare-metal and virtualized workloads.
 
What You’ll Lead
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<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Architect, scale, and optimize complex UNIX/Linux-based compute clusters, GPU farms, and high-density datacenter systems.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Own the design and strategy for on-prem HPC/GPU compute environments including OS architecture, distributed storage, network tuning, and interconnects.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Perform deep-dive troubleshooting across all layers — kernel, network stack, RPC/NFS, storage protocols, firmware, drivers, bootloaders, and orchestration systems.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Lead automation efforts using Python, Bash, Ansible, and IaC to eliminate manual processes and improve system reliability.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Drive configuration standards for compute, network, and storage layers across bare-metal systems.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Collaborate with architects, system software teams, networking teams, and hardware engineering to ensure platform scalability.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Own operational excellence: uptime, performance tuning, incident response processes, and long-term platform strategy.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Mentor and technically lead junior engineers and datacenter technicians.</li>
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What We Need to See 
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<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">8–15+ years in UNIX/Linux systems engineering, system administration, or HPC/compute infrastructure roles.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Expert-level knowledge of Linux internals (kernel, storage subsystems, networking stack, groups, system, NUMA, etc.).</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Proven experience architecting and running large-scale compute clusters or farms (HPC, HCI, GPU clusters, or bare-metal automation environments).</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Deep understanding of compute, network, and storage architectures end-to-end.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Demonstrated skill in root-cause analysis at multiple layers, including:</li>
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<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">NFSv3/v4 deep troubleshooting</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Packet-level analysis</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Kernel performance tuning</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Distributed storage (NetApp, Ceph, Lustre, BeeGFS, etc.)</li>
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<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, VLANs, BGP, LACP, RoCE/RDMA, NIC offloading.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Strong automation skills: Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or IaC tools.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Experience with PXE provisioning, Kickstart, bare-metal deployments, and OS image pipelines.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Certifications strongly preferred:</li>
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<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">UNIX/Linux certs (RHCE, RHCSA, Linux Foundation)</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Networking certs (CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, etc.)</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Storage certs (NetApp NCIE/NCDA or similar)</li>
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What Makes You Stand Out
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<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Experience designing GPU clusters or accelerator-dense environments.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Deep experience with distributed filesystems, block storage tuning, or NFS debugging.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Strong background in systems and platform performance engineering.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Ability to continuously evaluate emerging technologies and build long-term architectural recommendations.</li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Experience leading and mentoring infrastructure teams.</li>
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Sustainable Talent is a M/F+, disabled, and veteran equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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