Linux System & HPC Administrator (IT Infrastructure & Operations)

About the role

Analog Devices is looking for an experienced Linux and HPC system administrator to manage, optimise and scale its enterprise High Performance Computing infrastructure. The role suits someone with 5+ years managing Linux environments in large enterprises and 2+ years of hands-on work with workload management tools such as LSF and Slurm. It involves strong technical and problem-solving skills and close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, maintain and upgrade Linux OS and applications (Red Hat and Ubuntu) across bare-metal and virtual environments
• Install, configure, monitor and optimise HPC clusters to maximise utilisation
• Perform system monitoring, patching, troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Manage enterprise identity services and access controls
• Support physical, virtual and AWS-based Linux environments used for semiconductor design, and manage DNS, LDAP, NFS and web/application servers
• Implement security best practices, hardening and vulnerability remediation, and support audits, firewall management and access reviews
• Monitor infrastructure health, diagnose batch scheduler anomalies and failed jobs, and carry out root cause analysis
• Maintain operational documentation and procedures
• Build automation tools and support configuration management and DevOps initiatives
• Work with engineering, network, security, cloud and HPC teams and share knowledge across IT

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of Linux system administration in an EDA/HPC environment
• 2+ years administering HPC management tools
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu, and with virtualised platforms such as VMware or Hyper-V
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, SSH, NTP)
• 10% travel required; first shift, days

Required skills

• Scripting (shell, Python) and advanced Linux command-line administration
• Monitoring and logging tools such as Nagios, Prometheus and Grafana
• Preferred: AWS, NetApp, Ansible or Puppet, Docker and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Red Hat or AWS certifications