HPC Platform Product Lead

Role Description

Owns the end-to-end success of Zoetis’ VMRD High Performance Computing (HPC) environment as both a product and a platform:

• Sets vision and roadmap.
• Defines service offerings and governance.
• Provides technical leadership for architecture, SLURM scheduling, reliability, and sustainable growth.
• Partners with scientific/analytics users and business leaders to translate workload demand into a prioritized backlog and measurable value narrative.
• Ensures the environment delivers the right performance, cost, and risk posture through capacity planning, operational excellence, and data lifecycle strategy.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering/architecture, platform engineering, or adjacent technical product roles.
• 5+ years of experience in HPC environments (on-prem, cloud, and/or hybrid).
• Demonstrated experience partnering with scientists/engineers to translate workload needs into prioritized platform capabilities and measurable value stories.
• Preferred: Master's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience operating HPC in regulated or highly governed environments.
• Product Owner / Agile delivery experience (e.g., backlog management, acceptance criteria, road mapping).

Requirements

• Strong SLURM administration skills: partitions/queues, QoS, fairshare, accounting, reservations; job monitoring and troubleshooting; job efficiency analysis; user guidance.
• HPC infrastructure knowledge: Linux administration fundamentals, compute (CPU/GPU), high-speed networking, shared/parallel storage concepts, and capacity/performance planning.
• Automation/scripting (e.g., Bash/Python) and operational tooling; infrastructure-as-code/automation tooling where applicable.
• Observability: utilization telemetry, job analytics, dashboards/alerting for node health and storage utilization; actionable operational reporting.
• Data lifecycle and protection: retention policies, tiered storage, archive/backup strategy, restore testing, and operational runbooks.
• Product and delivery skills: requirements discovery, value storytelling, roadmap/backlog prioritization, stakeholder management, and communication of technical trade-offs and ROI.

Benefits

• Primarily office/remote knowledge-work role; prolonged periods of sitting and computer use.
• May require occasional off-hours support for critical incidents or maintenance windows.
• Travel requirements are minimal (0–10%) as applicable.