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You will work across Enterprise Linux, HPC and scientific computing, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, storage, observability, and automation.\nAs part of a relatively small infrastructure team, you will have broad technical ownership and the opportunity to directly influence architecture, engineering standards, modernization strategy, security practices, and operational processes.\nWe don't expect one person to be an expert in every technology in our environment. We do expect strong infrastructure fundamentals, deep troubleshooting skills, technical curiosity, and a demonstrated ability to take ownership of unfamiliar technologies.\nWhat You'll Do\nInfrastructure & HPC\nDesign, administer, and support Enterprise Linux environments across physical, virtual, cloud, and HPC infrastructure.\nManage system provisioning, configuration, patching, lifecycle, security hardening, capacity, performance, and automation.\nAdminister and evolve HPC and research-computing environments supporting scientific and engineering workloads.\nSupport enterprise workload scheduling, CPU/GPU compute, high-performance networking, and large-scale storage integration.\nPartner with researchers and engineers to understand workload requirements, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve compute performance and user experience.\nCloud, Networking & Security\nDesign, operate, and improve infrastructure across on-premises and public-cloud environments.\nSupport cloud compute, networking, storage, identity/access management, security, monitoring, and related services.\nTroubleshoot infrastructure networking across on-premises, cloud, and HPC environments, including routing, switching, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, segmentation, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity.\nApply Zero Trust and secure-by-design principles across infrastructure architecture and operations.\nIncorporate security into infrastructure operations, including identity and access management, vulnerability management, endpoint protection, security telemetry, system hardening, and incident response.\nHelp establish practical infrastructure security standards, controls, monitoring, and remediation processes.\nStorage & Data Infrastructure\nSupport Linux and HPC integration with enterprise storage and large-scale file-storage environments.\nTroubleshoot storage performance, connectivity, capacity, availability, and data-access issues across the infrastructure stack.\nParticipate in storage capacity planning, architecture, lifecycle, and workload-placement decisions.\nWork with internal specialists and external partners on complex storage issues and infrastructure improvements.\nAutomation, Observability & Operational Excellence\nAutomate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, maintenance, validation, and remediation using scripting, APIs, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code.\nImprove infrastructure observability through metrics, logging, telemetry, dashboards, and actionable alerting.\nApply CI/CD and declarative infrastructure-management practices where appropriate.\nExplore opportunities to use AI-assisted automation for troubleshooting, telemetry analysis, security operations, documentation, and operational workflows.\nReduce technical debt and single-person dependencies through automation, documentation, cross-training, and shared technical ownership.\nTechnical Leadership\nLead complex infrastructure initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation and operational handoff.\nEstablish engineering standards and reusable infrastructure patterns.\nInfluence technical direction and architecture across teams without requiring direct authority.\nMentor engineers and share technical knowledge while remaining hands-on.\nBalance immediate operational needs with longer-term modernization, reliability, security, and architecture goals.\nRequired Qualifications\nSignificant experience designing, administering, and supporting production infrastructure at enterprise scale.\nDeep hands-on Enterprise Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.\nExperience supporting HPC, scientific computing, large-scale compute, or similarly complex distributed-compute environments.\nStrong infrastructure networking fundamentals with the ability to troubleshoot across compute, network, storage, and application boundaries.\nHands-on experience operating public-cloud infrastructure.\nStrong automation and scripting skills using modern scripting, configuration-management, API, and Infrastructure-as-Code approaches.\nExperience with infrastructure monitoring, observability, incident response, and root-cause analysis.\nStrong understanding of infrastructure security fundamentals, including identity/access management, system hardening, vulnerability management, network security, and secure architecture.\nDemonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, mentor others, and influence architecture across teams.\nExcellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in several of the following areas is highly desirable, but we do not expect candidates to have worked with every technology or platform:\nEnterprise HPC workload scheduling and resource management\nGPU compute infrastructure\nHigh-performance and low-latency networking\nContainer orchestration and container platforms\nHybrid on-premises/public-cloud infrastructure\nInfrastructure as Code, configuration management, CI/CD, and declarative infrastructure practices\nEnterprise NFS and large-scale file, block, or object storage\nZero Trust / ZTNA, firewalls, VPNs, and network segmentation\nSIEM, EDR/XDR, security telemetry, and vulnerability-management platforms\nSSO, MFA, and identity-security technologies\nEnterprise monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability platforms\nScientific computing, bioinformatics, genomics, or research infrastructure\nAI-assisted infrastructure operations and automation\n Staff-Level Impact\nThis is not simply an operations role, nor is it an architecture role removed from day-to-day engineering.\nWe're looking for someone who can troubleshoot a difficult production issue today, understand why the environment allowed it to happen, and help design a better solution for tomorrow.\nThe right person will be comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and technical leadership: solving complex problems, establishing standards, mentoring others, influencing architecture, challenging assumptions, and helping define where PacBio's infrastructure goes next.\nYou do not need to already know every technology in our environment. We're more interested in deep infrastructure fundamentals, sound engineering judgment, intellectual curiosity, and a track record of successfully taking ownership of complex systems.\n. . .\nCandidates must have current authorization to work in the United States without the need for present or future sponsorship.\nNon-Field Based Employees are required to be onsite Monday-Thursday (Friday work from home). Depending on the role, some employees may be required to be 100% onsite.\nYou may be required from time to time to visit and work at PacBio locations and for such times as the Company considers necessary for the proper performance of your duties.\nAll listed tasks and responsibilities are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional tasks and responsibilities.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation.\n#LI-Onsite\nSalary Range:\n$148,200.00 - $222,200.00To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at PacBio. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. PacBio does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, PacBio employees or any other company location. PacBio is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation.\nIf you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact us at 650-521-8000, or  for assistance.\nVisit our following pages for more information on:\nFAQs\nBenefits\nCulture\nEqual Opportunity Employment\nBeware of Recruitment Fraud\nPlease be aware of employment scams where people or entities misuse PacBio’s name, or the names of PacBio employees, to post fake job advertisements or make fake job offers.\nPacBio will never extend a job offer without a personal interview and will never charge any money for joining our company. All current job openings are displayed on the Careers page of our official website.\nIf you see a job posting that is not on the PacBio official website, or have been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond and do not send money or provide any personal information.\nIT IS LIKELY A SCAM OR FAKE JOB AD IF:\nThe job offer requires youto pay something (for example, to purchase equipment).\nYou receive a job offer that you didn’t apply for, or without a personal interview or interaction.\nThe interview seems to involve AI video or audio.\nYou found a job on a job board or third-party channel, but the job doesn’t exist on the official PacBio careers page\nYou suspect it is a scam.\nHOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF:\nNever give personal and confidential information.\nNever pay for anything as part of interviewing for, or accepting, an offer of employment.\nIgnore it if it seems like a scam.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10640,"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":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Biotechnology","Health Care","Genomics & Genetic Testing","Laboratory Equipment"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-01T23:13:56Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-19T09:10:45Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-10-08T00:28:36Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":46,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.837,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":47,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:14","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":222200,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pacbio-staff-engineer-it-infrastructure","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pacbio-staff-engineer-it-infrastructure.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T14:20:08Z","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":19278,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"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":58729},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=58729"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpacbio-staff-engineer-it-infrastructure"},{"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%2Fpacbio-staff-engineer-it-infrastructure"},{"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%2Fpacbio-staff-engineer-it-infrastructure"},{"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/pacbio-staff-engineer-it-infrastructure\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpacbio-staff-engineer-it-infrastructure"}]}