HPC Systems Engineer

About This Role

Work within a small team of highly skilled HPC specialists to provide a performant, reliable, and secure high-performance computing (HPC) environment. Be involved in various aspects of designing and engineering the HPC system.

Responsibilities

• Establish strategies for overall support of the systems portfolio (4 supercomputers and large parallel file systems across the domain)
• Evaluate new hardware and software and understand potential benefits/impacts it can have in the scientific computing and seismic imaging environments
• Perform software installations and upgrades, inclusive of operating system in world class HPC environment
• Monitor overall system performance and health and partner with 3rd parties on hardware support as needed
• Provide support for the management of data in the environment (140+ Petabytes of parallel filesystem)
• Advanced consulting with users to resolve problems and ensure they can effectively utilize the systems
• Interact with both business customers and technical teams that are globally distributed and within varied time zones
• Engage with vendors for problem resolution of existing infrastructure and discussion of roadmaps and new technologies for evaluations
• Foster a supportive work environment and maintains open, productive interactions among team and across organizations
• Build and maintain cross-organizational contacts to facilitate execution of work

Requirements

• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent skills work experience
• Excellent technical, analytical, and communication skills
• 10+ years of hands-on Linux experience (e.g., RHEL, CentOS)
• Production infrastructure support (e.g., networking, storage, monitoring, compute, installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, retirement)
• 5+ years' experience in HPC technologies (e.g., installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, retirement, problem resolution)
• Experience with parallel/distributed files systems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS)
• Experience with high speed interconnect fabrics (e.g., Infiniband, Omni-Path)
• Experience with HPC batch scheduling software suites (e.g., PBSPro, SLURM)
• Proficiency in technical writing and documentation of solutions
• Solid understanding of data center operations fundamentals in networking, cooling, and power
• Works well in a team environment
• Self-motivated

Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science or related degree area (e.g., Computer Engineering, Information Systems) or equivalent skills work experience with CGPA – 6 and above.
• A minimum of 10 years of hands-on Linux experience and production infrastructure support. A minimum of 5 years' experience in HPC technologies.

Nice to Have

• Strong IT skills in infrastructure and applications
• Experience with supporting large scale production environments
• Experience in implementing changes and security controls in a global framework
• Understanding of data center operations fundamentals in networking, cooling, and power
• Knowledge and experience with installing/compiling vendor and open-source software
• Knowledge and experience with application/infrastructure deployment and support in one or more of the major cloud environments

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits