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Position ID: |
370534 |
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Location: |
Savannah, Georgia, United States |
How Many: |
1 |
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Duration: |
12+ Month(s) |
Pay Rate: |
DOE |
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Employment Type: |
Contract |
Uniform required:
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No
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Work shift:
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Shift-1
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Position Description:
Position Purpose:
Perform the necessary leadership and technical oversight to provide operational support for the production High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. Under the technical oversight, draw upon the operating plan, design specifications to leverage enabling technologies in meeting the desired goals, objectives and strategies of the Computational Fluid Dynamics, Simulation, and modeling engineering business areas. Responsible for the optimum integration of business applications to high performance computing technology.
Essential Functions:
1. Responsible for the day-to-day operations of Company's production HPC cluster.
2. Troubleshoot and maintain the Infiniband network.
3. Assist end users running applications on the HPC cluster.
4. Provide third level support for end users who experience problems on engineering workstations.
5. Assist with the mentoring and professional development of junior level HPC administrators.
6. Manage, maintain, monitor, and control interactive and batch processes, both scheduled and unscheduled (including on-request processing). 7. Complete engineering-defined batch processing and backups in the correct sequence and within the established time periods.
8. Suggest improvements to processing capabilities and efficiencies through system tuning and other hardware and software optimizations and improvements.
9. Perform regular monitoring of utilization needs and efficiencies, and report regularly on tuning initiatives.
10. Perform proactive failure trend analysis and root cause analysis for all system failures.
11. Produce trend reports to highlight production issues and follow predetermined action and escalation procedures when issues are encountered.
12. Monitor, verify, and make appropriate adjustments to support proper application executions.
13. Provide technical solutions that meet the performance and processing objectives of the business areas.
14. Perform upgrades thoroughly and accurately that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices.
Additional Functions:
1. Maintain technical relationships with multiple hardware and software vendors.
2. Work multiple operational windows as required to support business objectives.
3. Provide on-call support 24x7.
4. Develop and implement technical standards, hardware standards, and software standards.
5. Perform other duties as assigned.
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Requirements:
Unique Skills:
MOAB/TORQUE preferred. RHCE preferred. CCNA preferred. Python, PERL, or BASH scripting proficiency required. Experience with Parallel file systems such as Panasas, LUSTRE, or GPFS.
Education and Experience Requirements:
Bachelor degree in Engineering, Computer Science, related curriculum, or an equivalent combination of education and technical training/experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. 6 years experience in the installation, configuration and maintenance of Redhat Package Manager (RPM)-based Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE).
Other Requirements:
1. Experience should include: 4 years experience with the management of Linux-based HPC clusters. 2 years experience with high performance storage 2 years experience supporting Linux based scientific workstations running visualization applications. 2 years experience with the configuration and management of cluster scheduling software. 2 years experience managing Cisco switches.
2. A Masters degree may be used to offset 1 year of experience; PhD may offset 2 years of experience.
3. Regularly interface with Engineering Management and Information Technology Management, Flight Sciences engineers and scientists, internal/external partners, as well as functional department management & staff in a professional manner.
4. Ability to present technical solutions to management, engineers, external groups and other team members in terms of business value.
5. Provide technical guidance to other administrators to ensure technical excellence and high levels of customer satisfaction.
6. Evaluate and recommend technical training and other events of interest for the technical team.
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