Infrastructure Automation Engineer, AI Cluster Commissioning
Firmus Technologies15 hours ago
Melbourne, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop custom tools and automate hardware bring-up, configuration, firmware updates, inventory, testing, and issue tracking.
- Implement and adapt monitoring, health-check, diagnostics, and remediation tools for new platforms and production integration.
- Automate network deployment, firmware updates, configuration, diagnostics, and monitoring from the physical layer through the application layer.
- Develop automation frameworks for storage deployment, configuration, benchmarking, and validation.
- Integrate messaging, inventory, issue-tracking, reporting, dashboard, and operational analytics tools.
- Develop and execute customized testing and benchmarking tools for project and customer requirements.
- Use infrastructure-as-code tools and CI/CD pipelines to automate commissioning workflows and improve consistency and auditability.
- Apply secure practices for updates, credentials, keys, secrets, system setup, network configuration, and storage configuration.
- Document tools and processes and prepare them for operational handover.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of experience developing software, automation platforms, operational tooling, or infrastructure automation solutions for large-scale Linux, cloud, HPC, or AI environments.
- Strong understanding of high-performance GPU infrastructure, high-end networking, and high-performance storage.
- Experience configuring Linux servers, networks, and storage systems.
- Experience developing production software tools and APIs, integrating APIs, applying modern software development practices, and building automated testing frameworks.
- Experience with Bash, Python, and Ansible for scripting and automation.
- Experience with Redfish, IPMI, DCGM, Prometheus, Grafana, and NetBox.
- Familiarity with Slurm, NVIDIA DCGM, NCCL, Kubernetes, and distributed-system validation frameworks.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, written, verbal communication, teamwork, and independent-working skills.
- Willingness to travel internationally and domestically for on-site deployments and commissioning.
Benefits
- Full-time employment based in Australia or Singapore.
- Regular visits to current and future project sites in Australia and Southeast Asia.
- Opportunity to work with founders and experts on large-scale AI infrastructure, energy systems, and next-generation compute.
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About Firmus Technologies
Firmus Technologies builds energy‑efficient AI infrastructure, developing liquid‑cooled “AI Factory” data centers and operating a large‑scale GPU cloud for model training. The company sells capacity and services to developers, enterprises, education, and government customers, with a focus on energy and cost efficiency across Asia‑Pacific. Founded in 2019 in Australia, Firmus is privately held and headquartered in St Leonards, Tasmania.