HPC System Engineer

Title: HPC System Engineer

Location: 10001 Richmond Ave Houston, TX.

Duration: 6+ months contract
Alignment: W2
This job description is intended to outline the job requirements for personnel working in the Houston Systems team, with responsibilities for the hybrid on-premises and cloud HPC environment supporting proprietary Omega software and supporting the Geosolutions and DMS production groups and GTC development group.
Specific Work Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years experience working in a large HPC enterprise environment comprising thousands of servers, large storage solutions, tape and tape automation.
• Proficient in the installation, configuration and management of Linux based operating systems, preferably using RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux.
• Experience with IBM s xCAT distributed computing management software.
• Experience with installation and maintenance of computer hardware including servers, tape drives, robotic tape libraries, GPGPU, SSD, disk arrays.
• Experience with containerization.
• Knowledge of networking and datacenter technologies, switching, routing, high-availability, LAN / WAN / WLAN topologies and system configuration for Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fiber Channel SAN.
• Experience with HPC Storage Solutions, for example configuration and operation of HPE ClusterStor systems, NetApp, Dell Isilon, and Pure Storage.
• Ability to write and troubleshoot Bourne, Bash and C Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby and MRTG scripts.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and database installation and support.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Azure public clouds. Able to provision and manage instances, build images, write installation scripts.
• Experience with configuration tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience with backup and recovery tools, IBM Spectrum, Dell Networker.
• Good knowledge of Linux security, including configuration of endpoint security tools.3
• Ability to evaluate HPC system environments and make recommendations for improvement in performance and manageability.
• Ability to investigate, debug and diagnose system level issues.

General Work Requirements:

• Conform to local change management philosophies, including full testing on non-production systems, prior to production deployment.
• Effectively communicate all change activities to all affected parties including a clear description of the change, related service outages and possible effects on the different environments we support.
• Ensure IT deployment standards are maintained, with verification through reporting systems.
• Meet KPO requirements for InTouch support processing, including full documentation of problem resolution, creation of knowledge content and best practice items.
• Show a good understanding of computer equipment, and its care and maintenance.
• Work with other internal support groups, systems, networking, programming, desktop support, computer operations, and facilities as required to complete administration functions.
• Work with a variety of vendors in technical environments and in the reporting and investigation of system problems.
• Provide a written weekly status report to the team manager and be prepared to present and discuss this with the team at a weekly status meeting.
• Prepared to work outside of normal hours as system maintenance often must be performed outside of prime time; provide 24/7 support to computer operations; work with other remote support locations, for example Kuala Lumpur, backing follow the sun support.
• Participate in support on-call schedule and in weekend power outages, normally two per year and in emergency data center activities.
• Peer-review all major projects, as part of the normal deployment philosophy.3
• Ensure compliance with all quality assurance, best practice procedures and QHSE requirements, as defined by job position.

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