Scientific Computing Manager

Job Title: Scientific Computing Manager

Location: Rockville, MD – Hybrid Remote

Eligibility: willing to obtain a (NACI) T1 Clearance

Job Description

** PLEASE NOTE: This position is primarily remote; however, you must
reside within commuting distance to the client site in Rockville, MD and
be able to be onsite from 1 day a week to 1 week a month to meet
contractual obligations and project needs. Possible travel to the
Montana location.

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Scientific
Computing Manager supporting the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

As a Scientific Computing Manager you will help ensure today is safe and
tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Scientific Computing Manager
joining our team to oversee development and delivery of comprehensive
infrastructure and application/end user support services to the NIAID
research community. This includes architecture, implementation and
ongoing operations of multiple HPC clusters, scientific storage,
scientific instrumentations, and application support services for a
catalog of over 600 open source, COTS, and custom applications. Your
team will provide high-touch, consultative end user support to a
research community of approximately 4500. You must be able to
simultaneously manage various duties such as project management,
operations and maintenance, and team management to ensure customer
satisfaction while enhancing the caliber of services delivered.

How a Scientific Computing Manager will Make an Impact:

- Provides day to day team management and oversight of operations,
project execution and service delivery for scientific computing
infrastructure, application workloads and scientific instrumentation
teams

- Ensures scientific computing service delivery is aligned with
program and customer goals; develops strategic roadmaps and tracks
KPI’s

- Manages 3 to 4 direct reports and a total team of up to 15 people,
including hiring, performance management, training, and mentoring.
This includes delegating tasks, providing direction, and inspiring
collaboration and teamwork

- Responsible for multiple High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters
including all compute, storage and supporting applications

- Supports requirements gathering from internal and external
stakeholders

- Manage daily operations, tickets, outages and continuous improvement
in operational efficiency

- Work closely with Program Leadership, Federal Leadership,
Researchers Enterprise Architecture and PMO to align and coordinate
efforts and provide transparency

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Education:

- Masters and 5+ years or equivalent combination of education and
experience

Required Experience:

- Experience with HPC clusters

- Experience with comprehensive scientific computing infrastructure,
scientific data storage and/or scientific instrumentation support

- Experience supporting scientific applications and workflows
including HPC job optimization, dedicated platform support,
specialized computational systems, and computational pipelines

- Experience leading cross-functional teams including scientists and
engineers

- Experience with managing multiple complex activities simultaneously

- Experience presenting complex concepts to various stakeholders

Security Clearance Level:

- Public Trust

Preferred Skills:

- Education or experience in life or physical sciences, PhD preferred

- Experience working directly with researchers for support and
troubleshooting

- Experience with HPC systems and tooling like SLURM, GPFS, Globus

- Experience with scientific research tooling like CryoSPARC,
JupyterHub

- Experience deploying and managing cloud based scientific computing
resources

- Experience running AI/ML and scientific research workloads

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Location:

- This position is primarily remote; however, you must reside within
commuting distance to the client site in Rockville, MD and be able
to be onsite from 1 day a week to 1 week a month to meet contractual
obligations and project needs. Possible travel to the Montana
location.