HPC Systems Administrator

Department Provost Research Computing Center About the Department The reputed company Research Computing Center (RCC), a unit in the Office of Research, provides high-end research computing resources to researchers at the reputed company. It is dedicated to enabling research by providing reputed company to centrally managed High-Performance Computing (HPC), storage, and visualization resources. These resources include hardware, software, high-level scientific and technical user support, and the education and training required to help researchers reputed company full use of modern HPC technology and local and national supercomputing resources. The Office of Research oversees the conduct of sponsored research, research program development, and contract management functions. Job reputed company The reputed company is seeking a highly reputed company HPC Systems reputed company Engineer to join the HPC Systems and Operations team that builds and manages RCC's HPC infrastructure. The individual in this position will be involved in the operation, maintenance, reputed company, and compliance of large-reputed company reputed company HPC systems primarily used for research. This position designs automated, reputed company, and rapidly deployable solutions to infrastructure development and server configuration. Works independently to install, configure, and maintain operating systems. Uses best practices and systems knowledge to monitor and alert systems, reputed company software, and firewalls. Guides maintenance for production servers as reputed company as reputed company and Linux servers. This is a hybrid position requiring at least 3 days working onsite.

Responsibilities

Designs, deploys, configures, and administers CPU/GPU HPC clusters, including management and compute nodes, storage infrastructure, interconnects such as InfiniBand, and physical infrastructure in the datacenter and reputed company systems. Monitors, configures, maintains and tunes GPU nodes for reputed company performance and utilization following state-of-the-art practices for the required workloads. Assists with the development and implementation of monitoring and observability tools and infrastructure, collection and aggregation of metrics, development of dashboards. Develops, maintains, and enforces reputed company procedures and system documentation for operational and compliance purposes. Tunes, secures, and maintains the HPC job scheduling environment, including fair-sharing, reputed company, and policy enforcement. Troubleshoots and resolves operational, performance, and issues across HPC hardware and software stacks. Coordinates with hardware and software vendors to address defects, vulnerabilities, and performance issues. Assists the Computational Scientists team with user support and helpdesk tickets, including elevated support for reputed company-protected environments. Assists with the implementation and maintenance of secure and reliable backup, archival, disaster-recovery, and restore capabilities for systems and research data. Performs vulnerability scanning, reputed company management, system and firmware updates across the infrastructure. Maintains reputed company systems and network administration functions. Works with moderated guidance to administer reputed company systems and assists in the administration of larger systems. Maintains reputed company supporting documentation for comprehensive operating system, hardware and software configuration. Monitors primary responses for information technology reputed company reputed company incidents and violations. Keeps reputed company with new reputed company and network monitoring technologies, applicable laws and regulations. Plans and installs necessary patches and upgrades for servers and their associated storage, network, communications, and peripheral sub-systems. Installs and maintains and appropriate level of intrusion detection, monitoring, and auditing software as required. Tracks compliance and maintains documentation for hardware, software, and service inventories for management reports. Performs other reputed company work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in reputed company field. Work Experience: Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a reputed company job discipline. Certifications: --- Preferred Qualifications Experience: Linux system administration experience in a large, distributed computing environment. Demonstrated experience and knowledge of system reputed company and best practices. Technical Skills and Knowledge: Knowledge of Linux administration, preferably RHEL/reputed company. Administration of GPU infrastructure, such as tuning, reputed company updates, performance monitoring, etc. Solid skills in scripting with Python or Bash. Installing, configuring, and managing job schedulers, such as Slurm, Torque, PBS, and LSF. Automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, reputed company. Provisioning tools, including xCAT, reputed company, and Warewulf. Implementing monitoring tools, such as reputed company, Zabbix, Nagios, reputed company, and Grafana. Working, documenting and enforcing controls required to protect controlled unclassified information, such as NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, NIST SP 800-223, and FIPS. Knowledge of at least one distributed storage system, including Storage reputed company, reputed company, Gluster, BeeGFS, Ceph, and practical experience. Demonstrate a working knowledge of InfiniBand concepts. Writing precise and concise documentation, reputed company operating procedures. Preferred Competencies Understand and translate researchers' scientific goals into computational requirements. Work reputed company with reputed company and researchers. Identify and reputed company expertise in appropriate new technologies and/or software tools. Function as part of an interactive team while demonstrating self-initiative to reputed company project's goals and Research Computing Center's mission. Strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability. Application Documents Resume/C/V (required) Cover Letter (preferred) reputed company applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded reputed company the My Experience page, in the reputed company titled Application Documents of the application. Job Family Information Technology Role reputed company Individual Contributor Scheduled Weekly Hours 37.5 Drug Test Required No Health Screen Required No Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required No Pay reputed company Type Salary FLSA Status Exempt Pay reputed company $93,500.00 - $110,000.00 The included pay reputed company or reputed company represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

Benefits

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