The job in two lines
This role involves designing and implementing a configuration-as-code foundation for NVIDIA's EDA compute farm, focusing on automating and standardizing the deployment of LSF scheduler cells, and eliminating configuration drift across the infrastructure.
Summary by Rezifi's AI, from NVIDIA’s posting. Years and pay appear only when the posting states them.
What you'd do
- Designing and owning the configuration schema for LSF cell deployment
- Building the deployment pipeline for scheduler configuration
- Eliminating configuration drift across cells
- Standing up the regression suite for LSF upgrades
- Encoding scheduler knowledge into templates and policy
Skills it is built around
- Ansible
- GitOps
- Go
- Python
- LSF
Required
- SaltStack
- Puppet
- Chef
- Shell
- batch scheduler
Nice to have
- SLURM
- CI/CD
- Configuration Management
- test environments
- observability
The facts
- Experience
- 6+ years
- From the posting: “6+ years in infrastructure engineering”
- Pay
- $184,000 to $356,500 a year
- NVIDIA’s own figure.
- Level
- Senior
- Field
- Infrastructure automation
The full posting
From NVIDIA’s careers site
As NVIDIA posted it. See the original
Managing twenty-five scheduler cells by hand does not scale, and we are not going to try. NVIDIA is building a config-as-code foundation for its EDA compute farm, and we need an automation engineer to own it end to end. You are joining at the point where this is still partially manual and inconsistently applied across cells. That is the interesting version of the problem — you will be migrating off partial systems and reconciling drift, not starting from a blank repository.
What you'll be doing:
Designing and owning the configuration schema for LSF cell deployment, so that a policy change is written once, reviewed, tested, and applied identically everywhere it belongs.
Building the deployment pipeline that takes scheduler configuration from merge to production across a federated estate, including staged rollout and rollback.
Eliminating configuration drift across cells, and building the tooling that keeps it eliminated.
Standing up the regression suite that lets us upgrade LSF on a schedule rather than on a dare.
Working alongside our LSF internals engineer to encode hard-won scheduler knowledge into templates and policy, so that expertise lives in the repository instead of in one person's head.
What we need to see:
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
6+ years in infrastructure engineering with strong config management depth — Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, or comparable.
Real experience with GitOps practice at scale: review workflow, environment promotion, drift detection, and safe rollback.
Proficiency in Go, Python and shell, and comfort building the tooling rather than only using it.
Experience automating stateful, long-lived infrastructure where you cannot simply destroy and recreate.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
You have brought a manually administered estate under configuration management while it stayed in production.
Familiarity with LSF, Slurm, or another batch scheduler as a configuration target.
CI/CD experience for infrastructure, including test environments that meaningfully resemble production.
Observability instincts — you instrument what you automate.
#LI-Hybrid
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 17, 2026.This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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