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As the world's #1 provider of supercomputing systems, we help leading organizations solve complex challenges through cutting-edge HPC (High Performance Computing) and AI technologies.\nWe're looking for an HPC System Administrator to join our Data Center Operations team in Munich, Germany. In this customer-facing role, you'll support and optimize advanced HPC and AI environments, working with Linux systems, servers, storage, networking, and data center infrastructure while ensuring secure, reliable, and high-performing platforms for leading enterprises and research organizations.\nWhat You Will Do:\nAct as the primary technical contact (SPOC) for customers, providing expert support across HPC (High Performance Computing) and AI platforms while building strong long-term customer relationships.\n\nMonitor and maintain critical data center infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, operating systems, cluster management software, power, cooling, and environmental systems to ensure reliability, availability, and security.\n\nTroubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, operating system, firmware, network, and infrastructure issues, coordinating with vendors and internal teams to quickly minimize downtime and service disruptions.\n\nManage daily system administration activities, including user access management, software deployment, OS upgrades, firmware updates, security patching, defect resolution, and ongoing platform maintenance.\n\nTake ownership of incident and problem management by responding to system alerts, monitoring performance and system health, identifying root causes, opening vendor support tickets, and tracking issues through resolution.\n\nSupport the installation, configuration, testing, upgrade, and optimization of HPC and AI environments, helping customers continuously improve their research computing capabilities and platform performance.\n\nWork closely with customer technology, infrastructure, security, governance, and vendor teams to deliver projects, implement controlled changes, maintain documentation, ensure compliance, and support audits and service reviews.\n\nProvide technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and training to customers and researchers, contribute to documentation and best practices, participate in projects and customer meetings, and help maximize the value of HPC resources through outstanding customer support and analytical problem-solving skills.\n\nWhat We Look For:\nStrong Linux administration knowledge, including SUSE, RHEL, and CentOS environments.\n\nHands-on expertise with Confluent and Slurm in enterprise or HPC environments.\n\nBackground in system administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and technical support of complex infrastructure.\n\nAbility to independently perform operating system installations, software deployments, firmware updates, and system upgrades.\n\nStrong problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose, investigate, and resolve complex technical issues.\n\nExperience supporting mission-critical systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational stability.\n\nFluent English communication skills, both written and spoken, with the ability to work directly with international customers.\n\nCustomer-focused mindset with strong communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of providing high-quality technical support and guidance.\n\nWhat Lenovo Can Offer You:\nEmployee Share Purchase Plan \nEmployee Assistance Program, e.g., for health, legal & financial consultancy \nPension Plan \nMeal Allowance / Lunch Vouchers\nInternal E-learning Development Platform Available for Employees \nSpecialized Development Trainings (based on nomination process)\nEmployees Groups (LGBT+, WILL, etc.)\nOpportunity to Join/Create Employees Groups (inclusivity, well-being, sports, volunteering, charity, etc.)\nJob Rad (Bike Leasing)\nMobile phone + 3 Sim Cards for Mobile Working\nLink DE: Lenovo Central (sharepoint.com)\nHybrid Working Model *\nLenovo’s inclusive culture is shaped by strong voices and real stories - discover our Women@Lenovo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcbxS0KS-w\nPlease apply via our online tool with your CV (including cover letter and references). At Lenovo we are proud to be an equal opportunity company. This vacancy certainly applies for people with disabilities, too.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4741,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Laptops"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-03T14:59:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.388,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":20,"expected_fill_days":9,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/lenovo-hpc-system-administrator-mfd","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/lenovo-hpc-system-administrator-mfd.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T23:14:20Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":34164,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":15044},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=15044"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flenovo-hpc-system-administrator-mfd"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flenovo-hpc-system-administrator-mfd"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flenovo-hpc-system-administrator-mfd"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/lenovo-hpc-system-administrator-mfd\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flenovo-hpc-system-administrator-mfd"}]}