HPC Systems & Scheduler Administrator

Join Our Team as an HPC Systems & Scheduler Expert in Greenville, SC!

Are you passionate about high-performance computing and ready to take on a challenging role in a vibrant city? Join us in Greenville, SC, where cutting-edge technology meets Southern charm. As a key player in our team, you'll be at the forefront of managing and optimizing our enterprise HPC systems, ensuring peak performance and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage OS-level configuration, patching, and hardening of HPC compute nodes, login nodes, and head nodes to ensure stability and security compliance.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for the Slurm workload manager, managing partition configurations, node scheduling policies, and Quality of Service (QoS) tiers.
• Administer and maintain the Linux Virtual Desktop environment, managing image lifecycle and user session management.
• Deploy and maintain system monitoring for compute, scheduler, and Linux VDI environments; establish alerting thresholds and on-call response protocols.
• Design and tune scheduling configurations to maximize throughput and minimize queue latency.
• Profile and tune system-level performance bottlenecks, collaborating with the HPC Performance Engineer on application-level profiling.
• Support Linux-side user provisioning, group management, and SSH key governance.

Requirements

• Advanced Linux administration skills (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux ecosystem preferred).
• Deep expertise with Slurm Workload Manager, including configuration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Demonstrated experience administering Linux virtual desktops or thin-client environments.
• Experience managing environment modules, compiler toolchains, and MPI runtimes (OpenMPI, Client MPI, etc.).
• Experience with HPC networking concepts, including latency optimization and MPI tuning.
• Proficiency with system monitoring and observability tooling.

Preferences

• AWS cloud HPC experience (AWS ParallelCluster, EC2 HPC instances, EFA networking).
• Experience contributing to or supporting a CI/CD pipeline for HPC configurations.
• Familiarity with GPU compute environments (CUDA runtime, GPU partitioning in Slurm).
• Knowledge of cybersecurity hardening standards for Linux HPC.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Ansible for automation.

Ready to make an impact in the world of high-performance computing? Apply now to join our innovative team in Greenville, SC, and take your career to the next level!

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