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Open-Source - Platform Engineer

Location

California

Posted

4 days ago

Salary

$70 - $80 / hour

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Open-Source - Platform Engineer

Apex Systems

Title: Open-Source/ Platform Engineer Job#: 3036961 Location: Pleasanton, California (Remote) Job Description: Role Overview The Open Source Engineer supports the research compute ecosystem powering imaging, LLM, agentic AI, and R-based analytics workloads. This role blends Linux engineering, Kubernetes administration, GPU cluster management, and open-source tooling. This is a technical, hands-on role for an individual who will support both hardware and software layers, help scale compute environments, and solve problems across a wide range of on-prem systems. Key Responsibilities - Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain on-prem Kubernetes clusters, and troubleshoot issues end-to-end. - Serve as a Linux administrator, responsible for patching, maintaining, and troubleshooting Linux systems, including GPU nodes and compute clusters. - Enhance and maintain Python-based image ingestion pipelines, replacing existing scripts with robust workflows that include validation and error handling. - Install, upgrade, and maintain open-source research tools such as GitLab, Vault, Jupyter Notebooks, R/RStudio, and H2O. - Support medical imaging infrastructure, including understanding data flows and pulling images from various on-prem and cloud sources. - Learn and support robotics systems and lab information management systems (LIMS) for specimen intake. - Work with high-performance computing hardware, including GPU-dense systems and networking. - Act as a secondary support for a senior engineer, requiring the ability to learn and adapt to unfamiliar systems quickly. Required Qualifications Education: A Bachelor's degree is required. Experience: Must have strong experience in on-prem Kubernetes administration, not cloud-only. Proven experience with open-source tooling ecosystems and the ability to troubleshoot across Linux, Windows, hardware, and networking. Technical Skills: Strong Linux administration experience. Strong Python skills for scripting and modifying code. Basic familiarity with R/RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks from a systems perspective. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with GPU clusters. - Experience with DICOM or medical imaging data. - Experience with robotics or lab automation systems. - Experience with GitLab administration. - Familiarity with secrets management tools like Vault. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide. Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems. Employee Type: Contract Remote: Yes Location: Pleasanton, CA, US Job Type: Engineering and Technicians Pay Range: $70 - $80 per hour

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