AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking an HPC Engineer to provide expertise in High Performance Computing (HPC) systems, supporting national priority programs through strategic IT solutions.
Requirements
- Thorough knowledge of complex concepts, practices, and troubleshooting associated with HPC cluster systems design, installation, and maintenance.
- Advanced knowledge in distributed computing theory, parallel processing, applications, and associated infrastructure is required.
- Extensive experience with Linux/Unix systems including installation, configuration, networking, backups, updates and patching, data archiving, and system security.
- Functional knowledge of HPC middleware, and platform managers such as Bright Cluster Manager; employing job schedulers such as PBS, Slurm, Torque, etc.; and, optimizing job queues.
- Experience with HPC or large-scale distributed computing environments and technologies such as high-speed low-latency interconnects (e.g. InifiniBand), parallel file systems (e.g. Lustre), and virtualization environments and tools (e.g. VMWare).
- Experience developing Python/bash/Perl scripts and employing automation frameworks such as Ansible.
- General knowledge employing Docker containers and Kubernetes ecosystems.
Responsibilities
- Apply comprehensive knowledge of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems, comprised of high-speed, multi-petabyte Lustre file systems, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers, CPU/GPU compute nodes, and high performance storage arrays, using Ethernet, fiber, Omni-Path, and InfiniBand interconnections.
- Provide functional and technical expertise in support of user-developed software and technical advice and leadership to other technical staff
- Utilize a wide variety of skills in system and network monitoring; large-scale systems administration; scripting and automation; security compliance; network distributed services; storage and backups; and hardware and software problem diagnosis and resolution.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot technical problems, often of a complex nature, associated with computer hardware and software interrelationships and dependencies.
- Conduct needs analysis, planning, and scheduling the installation of a wide variety of new or modified hardware/software.
- Develop functional and technical IT system requirements and specifications.
- Configure and optimize system tools and applications, to include job schedulers (Slurm and PBSPro) and system resources (GitLab, LUA/TCL modules, and system support applications).
Other
- DoD Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility
- Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and ten or more years of job related experience.
- Create and brief technical presentations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
- Develop user facing documentation.
