HPC Administrator III

Savannah, Georgia

2 days ago

Job Description

Dept. 212 HPC Administrator III

Position Purpose:
Contribute to the creation of the strategic objectives of the High Performance Computing environment in the Advanced Computing Technologies department, as well as develop operational plans, goals, and strategies to best serve the Computational Fluid Dynamics, Simulation, and Modeling Engineering business units. Provide technical oversight and operational support to other members of the team to ensure continued sustained functionality of the HPC environment in accordance with the operational goals and plans. Responsible for the optimum integration of scientific applications to HPC technology and the exploration of new HPC technology to better meet the needs of the business.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations of Gulfstream's production HPC cluster.
Assist end users running applications on the HPC cluster.
Provide third level support for end users who experience problems on engineering workstations and remote visualization systems.
Manage, maintain, monitor, and control interactive and batch processes, both scheduled and unscheduled (including on-request processing).
Ensure engineering-defined batch processing and backups are completed in the correct sequence and within the established time periods.
Suggest improvements to processing capabilities and efficiencies through system tuning and other hardware and software optimizations and improvements.
Perform regular monitoring of utilization needs and efficiencies, and reporton tuning initiatives.
Perform proactive failure trend analysis and root cause analysis for all system failures.
Produce trend reports to highlight production issues and follow predetermined action and escalation procedures when issues are encountered.

Unique Skills:

Maintain technical relationships with multiple hardware and software vendors.
Work multiple operational windows as required.
Provide on-call support 24x7
Assist in development and implementation of technical, hardware and software standards.
Experience with management of infiniband-based Linux-based HPC clusters, high performance parallel storage, and configuration and management of cluster scheduling software.
Experience managing High Performance Computing low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnects.

Experience supporting Linux based scientific workstations running visualization applications.
Monitor, verify, and make appropriate adjustments to support proper application executions.
Provide technical solutions that meet performance and processing objectives of the business areas.
Perform upgrades that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices.
Provide leadership to HPC Administrators during system upgrades and outages.
Create thorough upgrade plans that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices.
Assist in the introduction of new technologies that can provide greater capabilities, improved productivity and reduce total cost of ownership.
Participate in the design of HPC technical solutions.
Continuously evaluate efficiency, existing technology effectiveness and interoperability and suggest areas for improvement.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related curriculum or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
A Masters degree may be used to offset one year of experience requirement; PhD may offset two years of experience.
7 years experience required in HPC or scientific computing environment to include the installation, configuration and maintenance of Redhat Package Manager (RPM)-based Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE).

Numbers & Facts

Location	Savannah, Georgia
Website	http://www.precisionpersonnel.com

Skills

3rd Level Supportunmatched
Application Integrationunmatched
Best Practicesunmatched
Business Modelunmatched
Computer Scienceunmatched
Computer Systemsunmatched
Computer Workstationsunmatched
Configuration Managementunmatched
Cost Controlunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
Failure Analysisunmatched
Fluid Mechanics and Dynamicsunmatched
Help Deskunmatched
Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
Interoperabilityunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Linux Distributionsunmatched
Linux Operating Systemunmatched
On Callunmatched
Operational Supportunmatched
Operations Planningunmatched
Performance Managementunmatched
Process Capabilityunmatched
Productivity Managementunmatched
RPMunmatched
Red Hat Linux Operating Systemunmatched
Reporting Skillsunmatched
Root Cause Analysisunmatched
Schedule Developmentunmatched
Simulationunmatched
Software Administrationunmatched
Strategic Planningunmatched
SuSE Linuxunmatched
Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
Systems Analysisunmatched
Technical Supportunmatched
Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
Total Cost of Ownershipunmatched
Training/Teaching Curriculumunmatched
Trend Analysisunmatched
User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched

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