HPC Azure Engineer

HPC Azure Engineer About Oakwood Systems Group:

Oakwood Systems Group is a leading IT professional services firm and recognized Microsoft Solutions Partner, delivering transformative solutions across Application Development, Data & AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Modern Work, and Managed Services. We help organizations modernize their technology environments and unlock business value through innovative, scalable, and secure solutions aligned to the Microsoft ecosystem.

With a consultative, outcome-driven approach, Oakwood partners closely with clients to drive digital transformation—from strategy through execution—leveraging technologies such as Azure, Microsoft Fabric, AI/ML, and next-generation intelligent applications.

We are committed to hiring top talent and fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture where innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth are core to everything we do. Our teams work on meaningful, cutting-edge projects that deliver measurable impact for clients across a wide range of industries.

We are seeking an experienced HPC Azure Engineer to design, deploy, optimize, and support High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions within Microsoft Azure. This role combines deep cloud infrastructure expertise with HPC technologies to help customers accelerate engineering, scientific, AI/ML, rendering, financial modeling, and simulation workloads in Azure.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure, networking, automation, Linux administration, and HPC technologies such as Azure Cycle Cloud, Azure Batch, Slurm, or similar hardirectly with customers to architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions.

• Design and implement Azure-based HPC environments and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Deploy and manage Azure Cycle Cloud, Azure Batch, and HPC clusters.
• Architect highly available and scalable compute, storage, and networking solutions.
• Design solutions utilizing Azure Virtual Machines, HPC VM families, Azure Net App Files, Azure Blob Storage, and high-performance storage architectures.
• Develop solutions for burst-to-cloud and hybrid HPC workloads.

• Configure and support Azure Virtual Networks, VPNs, Express Route, NSGs, Load Balancers, and DNS services.
• Implement Azure Site Recovery (ASR), backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Monitor and optimize Azure workloads for performance, reliability, and cost management.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application, networking, and performance issues.
• Configure identity solutions utilizing Entra  (Azure AD) and hybrid identity services.

• Automate deployments using Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, or similar tools.
• Develop Power Shell, Bash, Python, or Ansible automation solutions.
• Standardize deployment processes and operational procedures.

• Lead customer discovery sessions and technical design workshops.
• Gather requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Provide architecture recommendations and best practices.
• Deliver technical documentation, diagrams, and knowledge transfer sessions.
• Support project implementations and post-deployment operations.

• Maintain project documentation and operational runbooks.
• Develop support procedures and technical standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, automation, and operational efficiency.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience with HPC environments or large-scale…