Scientific Computing Manager

  • Rockville, MD
  • Posted 8 hours ago | Updated 8 hours ago

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Cloud Computing
High Performance Computing
Storage
HPC
Scientific
Computing

Job Details

Position : Scientific Computing Manager
Location : Rockville Maryland

As our Scientific Computing Manager, you will be responsible for developing and delivering comprehensive infrastructure and application/end user support services to the client 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.

Responsibilities and Duties:
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 computer, 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

Required Qualifications and Duties:
Masters and 5+ years or equivalent combination of education and 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

Desired Qualifications and duties:
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

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