Senior System Administrator

About the role

SambaNova is scaling from rack-scale systems to global AI compute clusters, and the Linux fleet underneath that growth has to be provisioned, upgraded, and kept running without drift. We're looking for a Senior System Administrator to own that layer end to end, across our own data centers and the environments we run for customers.

Responsibilities

In this role you'll deploy and operate a heterogeneous fleet that runs from x86 servers to several different AI accelerators, and keep it healthy as the hardware mix changes. You'll administer multiple infrastructures serving different business functions, each with its own users, workloads, and uptime expectations. Across all of it, you'll use automation to make the environment more efficient and more responsive, so that fleet changes are repeatable rather than applied by hand.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years performing system administration duties at scale
• Deep working knowledge of Red Hat based distributions
• Hands-on experience with core infrastructure services, including PXE, kickstart, DNS, DHCP, NTP, NFS, and LDAP
• System provisioning
• Ansible and other automation tooling
• Revision control systems
• System, application, and network debugging
• Experience in a high performance computing environment
• Experience with job schedulers
• Telemetry and monitoring
• End user support
• Basic networking knowledge
• Basic programming and scripting skills
• Documentation of systems, procedures, and runbooks
• Thrives in a fast paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with emerging and maturing hardware
• Debian based distributions
• Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Virtualization experience
• Infrastructure as code
• Security
• Advanced networking knowledge
• Familiarity with network based storage solutions such as NetApp
• Hyperscaler experience

  Location

  • SF Bay Area strongly preferred
  • Remote considered for an exceptional candidate, subject to time zone review