Senior HPC System Administrator

Description: 

We are searching for a mission-driven HPC System Administrator to support the installation, configuration, and networking of UNIX and/or NT-based platforms.  You'll be responsible for enterprise services such as DNS, NFS, e-mail services, security protection mechanisms, and the interoperability of UNIX and NT based systems. You should have a deep understanding of operating systems and experience with user account management, software package management, configuration management, and managing / verifying the health and status of IT infrastructure. You should also be familiar with development and implementing enterprise backup and recovery strategies. Lustre experienceis highly desired!Salary range: $190,000-205,000Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc. 

Skills Requirements:

You must have experience with the installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting and administration of:

• Multi-vendor servers running numerous COTS, open source, and in-house applications to accommodate HPC Division IT support requirements
• Multi-vendor servers running Red Hat or SuSe with directly attached FC SAN storage or SSDs
• Distributed computing tools such as ReS, LSF, and SLURM
• HPC farm systems, HPC MPP clustered systems, Front End servers of Special Purpose devices (SPDs)
• IBM of HP Blade servers with FC/SAS/Network back end
• Multi-vendor filesystems such as XFS, GPFS and Lustre
• Pre-Factory testing, Factory testing, System integration and Acceptance testing during the purchase process of the HPS systems

Experience Requirement: 

• 10 yrs. with a B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.
• IAT Level II Certification required
• Professional certifications accepted in lieu of 1 year of experience:*
  • Valid RHCSA or higher Red Hat certification
  • Valid VMWare certification

Clearance Requirement: 

• Active TS/SCI with a polygraph

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