Lead HPC Architect Cybersecurity

The Scientific Computing and Data group at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai partners with scientists to accelerate scientific discovery. To achieve these aims, we support a cutting-edge high-performance computing and data ecosystem along with MD/PhD-level support for researchers. The group is composed of a high-performance computing team, a clinical data warehouse team and a data services team.

The Lead HPC Architect, Cybersecurity and Cloud, High Performance Computational and Data Ecosystem, is responsible for architecting, designing, and leading the technical operations in the cybersecurity and cloud for Scientific Computing’s computational and data science ecosystem. This ecosystem includes high-performance computing (HPC) systems, clinical research databases, and a software development infrastructure for local and national projects.

To meet Sinai’s scientific and clinical goals, the Lead brings a strategic, tactical and customer-focused vision to evolve Sinai’s computational and data-rich environment to be continually more resilient, scalable and productive for basic and translational biomedical research. The development and execution of the vision includes a deep technical understanding of the best practices for computational, data software development systems, cybersecurity and cloud along with a strong focus on customer service for researchers. The Lead is an expert troubleshooter and productive team member. The incumbent is a productive partner for researchers and technologists throughout the organization and beyond.

Scientific Computing’s computational and data science ecosystem include a 50,000+ core and 50+ petabyte usable high-performance computing cluster, clinical data warehouse and software development environment.

Responsibilities:

This position reports to the Director for Computational & Data Ecosystem in Scientific Computing. Specific responsibilities are listed below.

HPC Cybersecurity, Cloud Architecture and HPC Administration:

• Lead the design, development, implementation and management of all technical operations and system administration tasks in cybersecurity and cloud consistent with best practices, including hardware and software configurations, configuration management, monitoring, usage reporting, system performance (parallel file systems, scheduler, networking, high availability, etc.).
• Ensure that all designs and implementation meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals. Ensure that the design and operation of the HPC ecosystem is productive for research.
• Implement best practices in cybersecurity in the HPC environment, including but not limited to encrypting data in flight and at rest, configuring and managing audit/logging, managing access control and authentication control, setting up secure enclaves and network configurations.
• Develop policies and procedures to address security vulnerabilities, manage access controls, completing all data security documents accurately.
• Lead the troubleshooting, isolation and resolution of all cybersecurity and cloud technical issues.
• Collaborate effectively with research and hospital system IT, Compliance, HIPAA, security and other departments to ensure compliance with all regulations, Sinai policies and relevant cybersecurity standards (e.g., NIST, ISO, GDPR).
• Design and implement hybrid and HPC solutions that integrate on-premise resources with public cloud platforms.
• Evaluate cloud-based HPC resources for various workloads and manage the seamless movement of workloads between on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop automation and orchestration for cloud infrastructure deployment and management.
• Perform all HPC system administration tasks, including installation, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance analysis and tuning of HPC applications, networking, storage, and hardware to optimize for workload efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship.
• Partner with other peers regionally, nationally and internationally to discover, propose and deploy a world-class research infrastructure for Mount Sinai.
• Stay current with emerging HPC, cloud, and cybersecurity technologies to keep the organization’s infrastructure up-to-date. Develop plans for future work.
• Work effectively and productively with other team members within the group and across Mount Sinai.
• Provide after-hours support as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or another scientific field. Master's or PhD preferred.
• 8 years of progressive HPC system administration and operations experience (preferably in a Redhat/CentOS Linux administration, Batch HPC cluster environment).
• Experience with all aspects of HPC including schedulers, parallel file systems, configuration management systems, etc.
• Proficient in cybersecurity processes, posture, regulations, approaches, protocols, firewalls, data protection in a regulated environment (e.g. finance, healthcare).
• Proficient with cloud services, orchestration tools, cost optimization and hybrid architectures for HPC.
• Must be an expert troubleshooter; Must be a team player and customer-focused.
• Excellent analytical ability and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills.
• Scripting and programming experience.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with LSF and GPFS Spectrum Scale.
• Experience in a healthcare environment.
• Experience with NIST 800 and FISMA regulations.
• Experience with NIH STRIDES.
• Experience with managing web access to HPC resources (such as Open OnDemand).
• Experience in a research environment is highly preferred.
• Experience with TSM archival storage and tape libraries.
• Experience with databases and web services.

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment.

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