Principal HPC Network Engineer

Role Overview We are seeking a highly skilled Senior HPC Networking Engineer to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot high-performance networking environments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in InfiniBand technologies, strong general networking knowledge, and hands-on experience with Fortinet solutions. You will play a critical role in ensuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of HPC infrastructure. What You Will Do Design, deploy, and maintain high-performance network infrastructures for HPC environments, troubleshoot complex network issues, manage and optimize InfiniBand components, perform performance tuning, monitoring, and capacity planning, implement and maintain network security, diagnose and resolve issues related to routing, switching, latency, and throughput, collaborate with compute, storage, and platform teams, develop and maintain documentation, participate in on-call rotations, and lead or contribute to network upgrades, migrations, and new deployments. Why It Might Be a Fit Strong hands-on experience with InfiniBand technologies, solid understanding of networking fundamentals, proven experience deploying and troubleshooting Fortinet solutions, experience with network performance analysis and troubleshooting tools, familiarity with Linux systems and scripting for automation, strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Requirements 5+ years of experience in network engineering, with a focus on HPC or data center environments Strong hands-on experience with InfiniBand technologies (e.g., Mellanox/NVIDIA) Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), VLANs, QoS, and network design Proven experience deploying and troubleshooting Fortinet solutions (FortiGate, FortiManager, VPNs, firewall policies) Experience with network performance analysis and troubleshooting tools Familiarity with Linux systems and scripting for automation (e.g., Bash, Python) Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Benefits Competitive salary Benefits package Originally posted on Himalayas