Datacenter Engineer

Pay Range: $52.14hr - $57.14hr

Job Overview:

At our client, we push the boundaries of what is possible. We believe in changing the world for the better by driving innovation in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms, and the data center. Developing great technology takes amazing people who understand collaboration and respect, and who will go the extra mile to achieve results.

The Role:

• In this role, the successful candidate will work with external vendors and internal teams across business units to deliver industry-leading Hardware Emulation and Prototyping datacenter solutions to allow the company to meet challenges in producing state-of-the-art compute, graphics, and adaptive silicon technologies.

Candidate Profile:

• Seeking a detail-oriented individual with strong verbal and written communication skills to support and develop hardware emulation and prototyping datacenters and infrastructure. This position is part of the Virtual Bring-Up (VBU) central methodology team.

Key Responsibilities:

• LSF/Slurm administration and maintenance, analyzing jobs and job data, handling user requests and incidents using current tools, and recommending new ones.
• Supporting multiple/distributed clusters on-premises and in the cloud.
• Managing server platform hardware upgrades, datacenter migrations, and system firmware/software patching.
• Interface with IT teams to deploy new hardware and resolve issues with existing infrastructure software toolsets.
• Work with external vendors to plan, configure, and deploy new hardware/software solutions within the engineering environment.
• Work closely with internal customer teams to develop and deploy new use scenarios, as well as triage and root-cause issues in current production configurations and use-models.
• Responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing hardware, configuring vendor software tools to manage operating system mass deployments, and supporting data center infrastructure to accommodate growth.
• Execution of audits of data centers to ensure facility uptime via software reporting tools, reporting on power and cooling usage.
• Responsible for inventory management of data center operational materials.
• Maintain audits to support space planning forecasting, as well as management to build out related racks and rack infrastructure to plan for hardware installations and moves.
• Responsible for asset documentation into a Data Center Infrastructure Management tool (DCIM).
• Providing hardware support for IT assets following incident management and change management workflows.

Preferred Experience:

• LSF/Slurm administration and usage experience.
• Fluent in Unix administration, configuration, driver installation, and general system configuration.
• Enterprise-level emulation or prototyping system management and maintenance.
• Physical lab or datacenter space management and system organization in a limited space.
• Focus on continuous improvement to keep hardware resources running as efficiently as possible.
• Hardware support for datacenter systems and infrastructure.
• AI workflow integration and augmentation.

Preferred Software Experience:

• RHEL8 / RHEL9.
• Bash / Perl / Python.
• Ansible / Puppet / cfengine / pxeboot.
• Device42 / Nagios / PowerBI.

Academic Credentials:

• Preferred BS in Computer Science/Engineering or Technical IT Certificate.