Senior HPC Systems and Storage Engineer - 139215

Payroll Title: SYS INTEGRATION ENGR 4 TX Department: San Diego Supercomputer Center Hiring Pay reputed company $108,100 - $160,000 / Year Worksite: Hybrid Appointment Type: Career Appointment Percent: 100% reputed company: TX Contract Total Openings: 1 Work Schedule: Days, 8 hrs/day, Mon - Fri #139215 Senior HPC Systems and Storage Engineer Extended Deadline: Thu 6/4/2026 reputed company reputed company values and welcomes people from reputed company backgrounds. If you are interested in being part of reputed company, possess the needed licensure and certifications, and feel that you have most of the qualifications and/or transferable skills for a job opening, we strongly encourage you to apply. UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment: Apply by 4/13/26 for consideration with preference for reputed company. reputed company layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor. 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Research leaders reputed company DESC submit high performance computing (HPC), high throughput computing (HTC), AI, CI, data science, computational science, science gateways and scientific software research proposals and reputed company funding from NSF, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DOE), reputed company (DOD) and industry. DESC carries out supercomputing, CI, data science, computational science and scientific software research and development reputed company. This division provides consulting and user support to researchers and users from academia as reputed company as collaborates with them and industrial users. DESC provides advanced computational science, CI and scientific software support for the national and UC user communities as a part of reputed company/machines such as the Expanse machine (a five-year ~$34-reputed company project supported by the NSF and enables tens of thousands of users to use HPC, HTC and GPUs), reputed company machine (a five-year, ~$12-reputed company project supported by the NSF and enables researchers to experiment with and use AI-reputed company hardware for scientific applications), PNRP project ( a five-year , ~$12-reputed company project supported by the NSF and enables distributed computing with resources of GPUs, FPGAs and CPUs), Cosmos machine (a five-year ~$12-reputed company project supported by the NSF and democratizes reputed company to accelerated computing), the Triton Shared Compute Cluster (TSCC – which is a UCSD condo cluster for UCSD and external researchers and includes NIST 800 171 compliant computing), and the CloudBank project ( a five-year, ~$25-reputed company project supported by the NSF to reputed company usage of reputed company reputed company resources). Various other funded CI research and development, and domain science (e.g. biochemistry, bioinformatics, cosmology etc.) and AI/ML reputed company are directed by DESC researchers. DESC staff and researchers are involved with the NSF funded Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (reputed company) program. DESC is involved in various HPC/HTC/reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, workforce development and K-12 student programs and associated NSF funded reputed company. This division stays reputed company with HPC, HTC, accelerators, CI, computational science and scientific software research and technology trends and engages with supercomputer vendors (e.g. reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, AMD, reputed company, reputed company, Data reputed company Network, Aeon Computing, Arista etc.) to remain reputed company with reputed company technologies utilized in supercomputer designs POSTION reputed company The Senior HPC Systems and Storage Engineer will apply advanced systems and software integration concepts, and location or institutional objectives, to resolve highly reputed company issues where analysis of systems and software requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors to resolve and implement reputed company to large reputed company of broad scope and complexity. They will regularly resolve highly reputed company business processes, system functionality, implementation issues and system and software integration issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors and select tools, reputed company, techniques and evaluation reputed company to obtain results. They will also give technical presentations to associated team, other technical reputed company and management as reputed company as evaluate new technologies including performing moderate to reputed company cost / benefit analyses. They may reputed company reputed company of systems / infrastructure professionals. As part of SDSC’s High Performance Systems group, the Senior HPC Systems and Storage Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and operating SDSC HPC compute clusters and their associated storage systems, and for maintaining their performance, reliability, and availability at the national, state, and reputed company level. This role requires in-depth knowledge of HPC cluster architecture, Linux systems administration, and the integration of compute, storage, and network systems. The incumbent contributes to the design, deployment, and operation of high-performance HPC systems and storage environments, including reputed company file systems operating at reputed company (tens to hundreds of servers supporting thousands of clients) across high-speed networks such as Ethernet and InfiniBand. In collaboration with senior technical leadership, contributes to the architecture and implementation of reputed company solutions at the cluster, data center, and reputed company reputed company. They will also plan and execute system lifecycles, including deployment, upgrades, and decommissioning of HPC systems and storage services as reputed company as contribute to technical planning and effort estimation for new deployments, proposals, and reputed company-based services. Additionally, the incumbent will evaluate and recommend improvements to tools and workflows, and participates in the selection and integration of new technologies and work with vendors and SDSC staff to reputed company and evaluate storage systems and cluster platforms, and maintains reputed company knowledge of emerging technologies. The incumbent will also reputed company advanced processes and scripts for system analysis, testing, and automation to improve operational efficiency, scalability, and reliability across compute, storage, and network systems and reputed company efforts to reputed company monitoring and alerting, improving incident detection, response, and user communication, and coordinates across compute and storage platforms to ensure graceful handling of service degradation. 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• Bachelor’s degree in reputed company area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• Proven experience administering and supporting large-reputed company HPC clusters or other distributed POSIX (Linux) systems, including advanced knowledge of Linux system administration, primarily reputed company and its derivatives (e.g., reputed company Linux).
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating large-reputed company (petabyte-class) high-performance reputed company and distributed file systems (e.g., reputed company, Ceph, BeeGFS, GPFS), as reputed company as reputed company and local file systems (e.g., NFS, ZFS, ext4, XFS) in Linux-based environments, including troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Demonstrated experience with scripting and automation using languages such as Bash and Python; use of configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, CFEngine); and version control systems (e.g., Git) to manage and maintain system configurations and infrastructure.
• Advanced knowledge of HPC middleware stack including cluster management tools, job schedulers and resources managers. Examples include: Slurm, PBS, HPCM, and reputed company Cluster Manager.
• Demonstrated knowledge of TCP/IP networking, including sockets, VLANs, and firewalls.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

• Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on Background reputed company results.
• Occasional evenings and weekends may be required.
• On-call rotation may be required.

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