HPC on AWS Specialist SMEArchitect- REMOTE

Job Title: AWS High Performance Computing (HPC) Architect & Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Design: Develop scalable high-performance architectures leveraging AWS HPC services such as AWS ParallelCluster FSx for Lustre EFA (Elastic Fabric Adapter) AWS Batch and EC2 HPC instances.
  

• Solution Implementation: Deploy automate and optimize HPC clusters and data pipelines for compute- and memory-intensive workloads including modeling simulation genomics CFD AI/ML training and financial risk analysis.
  

• Performance Optimization: Benchmark tune and monitor system performance for compute storage and networking components to achieve optimal throughput and cost efficiency.
  

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement reproducible environments using Terraform AWS CDK or CloudFormation to streamline provisioning CI/CD and configuration management.
  

• Data and Storage Management: Design high-throughput parallel storage solutions using S3 FSx for Lustre EBS and EFS; integrate with hybrid and on-prem HPC environments.
  

• Security and Compliance: Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework and HPC security best practices to ensure compliance with enterprise academic or government standards.
  

• Collaboration and Leadership: Partner with application scientists DevOps teams and business stakeholders to translate workload requirements into optimized HPC architectures. Provide mentoring and technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
  

• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Develop architecture diagrams reference implementations and technical playbooks to support ongoing HPC adoption and operations.
  

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8 years of experience in high-performance computing distributed systems or cloud architecture.
  

• Proven expertise in AWS HPC services (EC2 HPC ParallelCluster Batch FSx for Lustre EFA).
  

• Strong knowledge of Linux systems administration networking (Infiniband EFA MPI) and job schedulers (Slurm Torque PBS Pro).
  

• Hands-on experience with automation and IaC (Terraform Ansible CloudFormation).
  

• Scripting and development proficiency (Python Bash or similar).
  

• Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch Grafana Prometheus) and cost-optimization strategies.
  

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified Advanced Networking preferred.
  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related technical field.
  

Preferred Attributes:

• Experience with GPU workloads containerized HPC (ECS/EKS with ParallelCluster) or hybrid/on-prem to cloud HPC migrations.
  

• Strong communication and presentation skills for executive and technical audiences.
  

• Demonstrated thought leadership in HPC strategy performance benchmarking and AWS innovation.