HPC-Focused IT Devops Engineer

Summary

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in CS or equivalent practical experience
• Linux administration - Skilled (5-10 years)
• The majority of our infrastructure, including all HPC and core infrastructure, is Linux OS-based.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in CS or equivalent practical experience
• We’d like to focus on someone who has experience in our skill areas, is willing to learn our environment, and can be developed into an architect-level contributor over several years.
• Linux administration
• The majority of our infrastructure, including all HPC and core infrastructure, is Linux OS-based.
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (Ansible, etc) - Skilled (3-5 years)
• The team has worked to deliver tremendous gains in HPC deployment automation. An HPC-focused engineer will need to maintain and improve upon this automation. Additionally, we will look for them to develop new automation, adding customer and partner value.
• Scheduler (SLURM, LSF, etc) - Familiar (1-3 years)
• SLURM will continue to be critical in HPC. While it may seem essential to hire someone more skilled, we feel that we can develop a new hire based on the team’s knowledge.
• Virtualization - Familiar (1-3 years)
• Virtualizing compute nodes is our next opportunity for advancement in HPC. Virtualization offers benefits for FEA engineers and our cluster management.
• HPC - Familiar (5-8 years)
• Knowledge of developing scalable HPC solutions to support ongoing business growth and demand and experience maintaining and configuring high-performance compute environments that includes cloud-based systems, as well as local physical and virtual systems.
• About our ideal candidate:
• Experienced with schedulers such as SLURM
• Experience with parallel computing paradigms (MPI, etc.)
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience developing and securing containerized applications and HPC environments.
• Effective communication skills
• Customer-focused mindset
• Driven to automate repetitive tasks
• Interpersonal skills that enable you to influence others and negotiate positive outcomes for customers
• Time management and prioritization skills
• Willingness to learn
• Focused on continuous self-improvement, teamwork, innovation, and results
• Capable of maintaining a professional demeanor in any situation

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