{"id":1191115,"url":"https://alion.io/job/bcore-hpc-infrastructure-cluster-engineer","title":"HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer","company":{"id":2681147,"name":"BCore","domain":"bcore.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/bcore","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":148000,"max":179000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":179000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"HPC","optional":false},{"name":"InfiniBand","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"OpenShift","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Red Hat","optional":false},{"name":"SLURM","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T16:50:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T20:46:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Overview\nHPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer\nSpringfield, VA\nActive TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly\nAt Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it’s architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions.\nDo you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government’s mission and our client’s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation’s cyber interests? Join our growing team as a HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer, supporting the NGA customer mission.\nResponsibilities\nWhat you get to do every day:\nYou will manage the administration, health, and performance of the foundational compute environment. 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.\nKey Responsibilities:\nCluster Administration: Manage the day-to-day operations of the customer compute cluster, including Linux operating system administration, hardware monitoring, patching, and system upgrades.\nResource 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.\nInfrastructure Optimization: Tune cluster performance at the hardware, operating system, and network levels to maximize compute efficiency and data throughput for customer workloads.\nStorage 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.\nEnvironment 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.\nSecurity and Compliance: Ensure all infrastructure components remain compliant with federal security standards, implementing strict access controls and maintaining system accreditations.\nQualifications\nClearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly\nEducation/Experience:\nRequires Bachelor's degree\n5+years of experience in Linux systems administration and infrastructure management with a specific focus on high-performance computing environments.\n\nRequired Skills:\nExpertise in managing bare-metal servers, enterprise storage arrays, and advanced network configurations (Experience with InfiniBand)\nStrong proficiency with workload managers, job schedulers, and AI orchestration tools (e.g., Run:AI, SLURM)\nHands-on experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms, specifically OpenShift or Kubernetes\nExperience writing automation and configuration scripts (e.g., Bash, Python) to streamline cluster maintenance\nTroubleshooting Focus: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware, network, and OS-level issues\nWhat is ideal?\nFamiliarity with parallel file systems and high-throughput storage architecture.\nPrior experience engineering or managing high-speed GPU-to-GPU communication topologies\nIntelligence Community Experience preferred\nWhat you can expect from us\nRecognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by bcore through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses\nYou’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community \nThe expected salary range within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $148,000 - $179,000. Final compensation is unique to each individual and will be determined based on factors such as experience, education, geographic location, and contractual requirements. This is not a guarantee.\nBenefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more.\nBCore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. 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