HPC Systems Engineer

Job Title: HPC/Cloud Systems Engineer

Location: Houston Texas

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

• As Solutions Integration Engineer, mission is to support the Geounits, internal users and solutions teams in ensuring the appropriate cloud solution in DELFI is deployed for the customer (internal or external) and adoption is addressed. He/she provides the HQ technical support in order for the field locations to position and deploy the various solutions.
• Develop the necessary Solution Design capabilities and competencies for ensuring successful deployment of cloud solutions.
• Continuous knowledge capture on best practices.
• Technology watch: keeping track of technology trends to improve our Cloud designs and deployments, and share knowledge with Solution teams and Engineering.
• Ensure successful client onboarding to their DELFI environment.
• Manage Infrastructure and Image Customizations in line with Cloud Adoption processes.
• Engage with Geo units across the sales cycle to provide technical advisory (client presentations, workshops, deployment assessment, solution design), and contribute to the technical proposal.
• Identify, Diagnose and Troubleshot complex issues with web applications, backend services and IaaS deployments across Azure, Google and other Cloud Service Providers.
• Assist in the translation of technical issues and complex problems into non-technical summaries for management up to and including president level.

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.
• Ability to evaluate HPC system environments and make recommendations for improvement in performance and manageability.
• Ability to investigate, debug and diagnose system level issues.

Beneficial Experience:

Experience with SLB software including Omega2 and Petrel.

Experience in Omega2 infrastructure software, OPM, RDM, OSM, OCM, WHSM, MMS, etc.

Experience in other SLB software, ECL, IX, Visage, PetroMod.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree from a four-year college in computer science studies or 5-10 years equivalent work experience, and current industry recognized training and certification, for example from Cisco, RedHat or Microsoft.