PERM Role-Direct Client-HPC Systems Engineer (High Performance Computing)

NOTE-THIS IS A PERM ROLE WITH MY DIRECT CLIENT IN DALLAS AND ONSITE FROM DAY 1. NO 3RD PARTIES, NO VISA CANDIDATES.

Role: Sr. Kubernetes Engineer (HPC, GPU, NVIDIA) Job Location: Dallas, TX Duration: Permanent Hire/Direct Hire Work Model: Onsite Interview: MS Teams Video Education: Bachelor's Degree

Requirements:

• Strong experience using Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience working with NVIDIA GPUs and Kubernetes.
• Experience with NVIDIA GPU Operator, device plugins, NVML, MIG, and DCGM.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for developing Kubernetes operators and controllers.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, including CRDs, RBAC, custom controllers, and scheduler extensions.
• Experience supporting GPU-intensive workloads such as large language models (LLMs), training pipelines, and scientific computing.
• Hands-on experience with Helm, Kustomize, and GitOps workflows.
• Familiarity with CNI plugins, especially NVIDIA CNI and Multus.
• Experience monitoring GPU metrics and cluster health using Prometheus and DCGM Exporter.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting and operating Kubernetes clusters optimized for GPU workloads, leveraging NVIDIA GPU Operator, Network Operator and DCGM.
• Developing, deploying and maintaining custom Kubernetes operators and controllers to automate infrastructure services.
• Integrating NVIDIA device plugins, Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) and GPU sharing features into the scheduling layer.
• Collaborating with HPC, ML and DevOps teams to ensure multi-tenant, high-throughput cluster performance.
• Driving observability and telemetry integrations using Prometheus, Grafana, DCGM Exporter and OpenTelemetry.
• Implementing secure multi-user and multi-namespace GPU isolation, with RBAC and policy enforcement, such as OPA or Gatekeeper.
• Maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes infrastructure using GitOps, ArgoCD and FluxCD.
• Contributing to infrastructure-as-code, using Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize.

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