About this role
MatchPoint is a fast-growing, young, energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber, Robinhood, Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Sephora and more! More recently, we have expanded to working internationally in Canada, China, Ireland, UK, Brazil and India. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry specific best practices and expertise.
We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position, please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
Role: Linux DevOps Engineer
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Rate: $45/hr
We are seeking a Senior Linux DevOps Engineer for an on-site, engagement in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This senior-level role supports high-performance computing (HPC) and electronic design automation (EDA) infrastructure within a datacenter organization. The engineer will work independently with minimal ramp-up time across Linux HPC operations, infrastructure automation, SLURM workload management, datacenter migrations, storage, and enterprise identity integration.
Responsibilities
- Support and administer SLURM-based HPC compute environments, including partition configuration and migration planning.
- Plan and execute HPC and EDA compute and storage infrastructure migrations across datacenters.
- Develop migration strategies and evaluate implementation options, risks, dependencies, and operational tradeoffs.
- Create formal Method of Procedure (MOP) documents and runbooks for infrastructure changes and service cutovers.
- Coordinate with EDA, storage, and identity and access management teams to deliver platform changes.
- Verify storage volumes, application access, authentication, and service continuity after migrations or infrastructure changes.
- Define HPC storage service tiers and gather performance and capacity requirements for EDA workloads.
- Administer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and SLES 15 systems in a production HPC environment.
- Build and maintain custom Linux operating system images and installation media using Kiwi NG and related tools.
- Enable and maintain bare-metal provisioning workflows through RackN / Digital Rebar Provision for SLES and ESXi deployments.
- Provision and configure VMware vSphere virtual machines for HPC service workloads.
- Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for Linux system setup, authentication, and platform configuration across SLES versions.
- Manage Git repositories and Artifactory storage, contribute pull requests, conduct code reviews, and support infrastructure repositories.
- Integrate enterprise identity platforms and reconcile Linux user and group identity data across authentication domains.
- Assess logging strategies, investigate production Linux service issues, and produce technical documentation in Confluence.
- Drive production changes through established change-management workflows using ServiceNow.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering,