HPC Systems Administrator

2 days ago


Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States Patriot Talent Solutions Full time
HPC Engineer Job Description

We are seeking an experienced HPC Engineer to join our team at Patriot Talent Solutions. As an HPC Engineer, you will play a key role in improving the security, performance, and reliability of our computing environment.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Work with our team to define and implement best practices and standards within the organization
  • Automate systems administration tasks using open-source configuration management tools
  • Assist with designing, building, and maintaining HPC Linux systems
  • Tune operating systems and applications to increase performance and reliability of services
  • Diagnose system operational problems quickly and effectively
  • Document system administration procedures for routine and complex tasks
  • Participate in an on-call rotation providing 24-hour, 7-day support and off-hours maintenance windows
  • Coordinate with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team
  • Strong working knowledge of Unix system fundamentals and common network protocols; knowledge or experience working with Infiniband and parallel filesystems (Lustre, GPFS) is a plus
  • Experience managing Linux/UNIX operating systems in a heterogeneous environment
  • Solid understanding of networked computing environment concepts
  • Ability to develop and maintain programs and scripts that aid in the operation and automation of administrative tasks using various shell and scripting languages
  • Ability to identify requirements and to define, plan, and implement requisite solutions
  • Ability to plan organize, prioritize tasks, and complete assigned projects with minimal supervision
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment software methodologies and how they apply to systems engineering
  • An understanding of site reliability engineering fundamentals
  • Familiarity with code review processes / best practices and familiarity with tools like Git, GitHub and GitLab
  • Experience using tools such as Grafana and Nagios to monitor systems, metrics, and create dashboards
  • Experience designing and implementing highly available systems/services
  • Experience participating in an open-source community with patches accepted upstream
  • Experience with developing systems tools, preferably using Python, Golang, Ruby, or BASH
  • Experience deploying and maintaining automated configuration management software such as: Puppet, Ansible
  • Experience building custom packages for RHEL/Rocky using RPM
  • Familiarity or direct experience with various container strategies and orchestration tools such as Docker, PodMan, Singularity, OpenShift/Kubernetes
  • Familiarity or direct experience installing and utilizing job management and benchmarking tools such as SLURM, STREAM/OSU, MPI benchmarks, IOR, etc.
  • Experience implementing systems level security technologies like SELinux and following security best-practices

Patriot Talent Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.



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