Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RedLine Performance Solutions provides high-performance computing solutions engineering services, including HPC systems engineering, managed services, and program analysis. The Lead HPC/Cloud Systems Administrator will lead administration of on-premise and cloud-based HPC environments, supporting mission-critical customer programs through systems integration, automation, performance optimization, security, and technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team to administer resources from the operating system and above within on-premise and cloud-based HPC environments. Efforts include, but are not limited to:
- Integration and configuration of compute resources and service nodes
- All software installations on compute resources, services nodes, and parallel filesystems
- Develop/implement system and performance monitoring and benchmarking
- Maintain system documentation
- Evaluate performance impacts of planned operating system changes
- Lead resource optimization and job scheduling software and policies
- Provide technical support to researchers using HPC resources, troubleshoot problems and develop appropriate computational strategies
- Provide emergency support on a 24x7 basis
- Provide technical leadership and direction for other team members. Maintain team focus on production uptime and model performance
- Review and present all change management requests to customer management
- Prepare for and attend the daily 9:00 am (Eastern) Operations call with customer staff and other operational stakeholders
Skills
- US citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance is a requirement to apply
- This is a remote position
- Minimum of 10 years RedHat, Rocky, and/or CentOS Linux system administrator experience
- Technical leadership experience in a large, production environment – leadership for the technical solution and the system administration team
- Demonstrated ability to configure, deploy and manage major system areas such as batch system, network, data storage, backup system, database system, or distributed computing
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible)
- Ability to work both independently and as part of the team; flexibility in dealing with assignments and in working on several projects simultaneously
- Ability to effectively communicate with people of diverse backgrounds and computer knowledge
- HPC system administration experience is highly preferred
- Experience with batch systems (e.g., SLURM)
- Experience managing parallel and cluster file systems (e.g., Lustre)
- Network management experience, including in an HPC context (e.g., InfiniBand)
- Experience with cloud HPC environment (e.g., GCP) is highly preferred
Benefits
- This is a remote position.
- This full-time position offers a full benefits package including paid time off, 401k match, and health care benefits.
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