[Remote] Principal Federal HPC Technical Consultant, (Clearance Preferred TS/SCI with Poly) MD or Utah

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. They are seeking a Principal Federal HPC Technical Consultant to provide technology consulting to customers, lead the implementation of HPC solutions, and maintain effective customer relationships. The role involves technical support, project leadership, and contributing to the company's solutions portfolio while ensuring customer satisfaction and compliance with IT security standards.

Responsibilities

• Strong Linux experience required
• Lead the technical implementation planning and delivery of world class scale HPC solutions, from requirements gathering to implementation
• Provide architectural guidance on compute, storage, networking, and workload management tailored to customer use cases
• Configure, deploy, and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters, associated storage, and network infrastructure
• Work in close collaboration with customers on finalizing and deploying HPC software applications, hosting platforms, and management systems that enable customer research and production workloads
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for HPC implementation in secure locations
• Work on both operational support and strategic HPC projects; actively participate in customer user group environments
• Evaluate and implement new tools, middleware, and methodologies to improve operations and service delivery
• Ensure compliance with enterprise IT security and technology controls
• Act as principal consultant in customer engagements, often leading cross-functional project teams (including customer staff)
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex, multi-vendor HPC infrastructure challenges
• Advise senior IT and research leadership on HPC strategy, best practices, and future direction
• Collaborate with sales teams on proposals, proof-of-concepts, and pre-sales activities, ensuring technical soundness and customer alignment
• Mentor junior engineers and consultants, fostering knowledge sharing across the HPC practice

Skills

• US Citizenship required
• Strong Linux experience required
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• Proven ability to design and deliver complex, multi-vendor HPC solutions at scale
• Demonstrated ability to independently complete solution implementations and application design deliverables
• Must be United States Citizen due to the responsibilities and requirements of the role as this will be supporting a Federal site
• Top Secret Clearance, TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP)
• Must be willing to travel as the business dictates
• Demonstrates broad knowledge across multiple technical domains to effectively manage complex integration efforts involving HPC and enterprise systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language. Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at management levels
• 8+ years of professional experience, with at least 3+ in HPC architecture, systems engineering, or large-scale infrastructure design
• Clearance: Preferred: TS/SCI/Full Scope Poly Polygraph is preferred. Will consider a candidate without the clearance but the candidate must be able to get cleared including the Full Scope Polygraph and is confident that they can pass it
• Preferred location is MD or Utah, but for candidates that meet the qualifications, this role may be open to other locations within the US, as long as candidate is willing to travel
• Expertise in one or more of the following: parallel computing, MPI/OpenMP, GPU acceleration, workload schedulers (Slurm, Altair PBS Pro, Torque/MOAB, etc.), or large-scale data storage systems (Lustre, GPFS, Ceph)
• Experience with Network boot technologies (PXE or gPXE/Etherboot etc)
• Storage specific knowledge: LVM, RAID, iSCSI, Disk partitioning (GPT, MBR)
• Exposure to Opensource community and software
• Knowledge of shared storage like Lustre, SpectrumStore and High Availability solutions is a plus
• Experience with development and automation such as Ansible and GitHub, etc

Benefits

• Variable incentives may also be offered.
• Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at
• We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have 6 whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.

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