DevOps Engineer

At Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG) – The AI Factory Platform Company – we’re building a team of innovators who thrive on collaboration, creativity, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI. As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale.

Penguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision.

At Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and believe in servant leadership, where leaders enable teams to do their best work. We empower employees to take ownership, drive innovation, and grow through challenging work, continuous learning, and exposure to advanced AI tools and technologies. With flexibility where it matters and a strong focus on outcomes, Penguin Solutions is a place to do your best work, grow your career, and make a meaningful impact.

Job Overview

Penguin Solutions Managed Services provides dedicated, remote, Linux systems DevOps for complex, integrated environments involving high-performance computing, cloud, and enterprise systems. This position requires technical skills and the ability to understand, document, configure, administer, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in Linux environments. This is a customer-facing position.

Responsibilities

• Build automation workflows to aid in lights out operations
• Integration of systems and platforms through infrastructure as code
• Build & Maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitoring and observability (System performance metrics monitoring and alerting).
• Build customer and customer services dashboards.
• Work as part of a team to provide IT support and resolve errors, including troubleshooting AI task errors
• Stay up-to-date on advancements in data center infrastructure and technologies.
• Respond to system errors after hours.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with customers to enable initiatives. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux server environments, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
• 2+ years of experience with Python & Ansible scripting.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and other DevOps concepts.
• Strong Linux systems administration skills and experience with open-source technologies
• Understanding of Linux networking implementation and protocols.
• Proven expertise in solving Linux OS and user environment performance issues.
• Familiarity with system monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with several cpu and gpu compilers including gcc, Intel, AMD (AOCC, ROCm) and NVIDIA (PGI OpenACC,CUDA).
• Ability to speak English and communicate clearly and effectively with team members and clients.

Preferred Qualifications

• HPC: Application, Systems Management, MPI, OS, Optimization, Hardware and data center needs.
• AI: Virtualization, Applications, Container Orchestration, Systems Management, and Hardware design.
• Data: High-Performance Storage and Parallel file systems used in HPC/AI.
• HPC cluster system admin experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux cluster technologies and optimization techniques.
• Linux Certifications (e.g., RHCSA, RHCE).
• Able to install, configure, and tune software applications and provide overall support.
• Will take initiative to refer to Application OEM/Vendor for Application operations, features, functions, and questions.
• Outstanding verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. 

Location

Hybrid – South Korea (3 days in office)