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Jump’s global HPC Team is looking to add a Production Engineer in New York City. The ideal candidate would be a hands-on individual, highly skilled in the details and nuances of managing Linux environments with a strong software development background necessary to support uniquely customized systems at scale. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Design, implement, maintain, and support high performance compute and storage systems 
• Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems 
• Monitor systems and storage performance, up to and including network components 
• Build tooling to compile, package, install, and upgrade software and operating system components at scale 
• Write code to automate frequently performed tasks 
• Collaborate directly with researchers to optimize their use of HPC infrastructure 
• Develop and improve systems and user documentation 
• Develop and monitor the tools used to maintain a production computing environment 
• Provide operational support on a rotating basis and as needed 
• Other duties as assigned or needed 

Skills You’ll Need: 

• Experience in high performance computing (HPC), including parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS), batch systems (e.g., Slurm, Grid Engine), and high-performance network interconnects experience is a plus, but not required 
• Extensive experience with Linux systems administration 
• High proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, C) 
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complicated, interdependent, and distributed systems 
• Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks (debuggers and profilers) 
• Experience with system configuration management tools (SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet, etc.) 
• A compulsion to perform root cause analysis 
• Reliable and predictable availability