HPC Engineer

Role Overview

• Work closely with customer stakeholders, scientists, and IT professionals to deliver Compute at Scale
• Develop, evolve, and administer HPC platforms along with support for Scientific applications, workflows, and other related infrastructure both on-prem and Cloud hosted
• Drive architecture, roadmaps, and execution of projects to establish and operate IT infrastructure best practices for customers
• Full stack support
• design and evolution of platforms, application administration, supporting customer workflows, profiling and performance tuning
• Monitoring and maintenance of scoped systems, platform and systems administration, troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking related issues
• Solution architecting and hands-on engineering (on-prem + Cloud)
• Documentation
• Collaborating with cross-discipline team members and customers
• Supporting internal and customer Architecture and Design efforts
• Supporting customers with their workflow pipelines (advisory and hands-on)
• Comprehensively documenting new and existing computational assets
• Maintaining the flexibility to pivot as engagement scopes may evolve
• Support for AWS & GCP Cloud applications, migrations, and modernization
• CloudOps / IaC for on-going platform management
• Setup and configuration of AWS & GCP Cloud infrastructure for new platform builds
• Ensuring system compliance with company security standards and applicable regulatory requirements
• Transition support for modernized services to operational teams
• Provide engineering level troubleshooting and services restoration for operational issues as they arise on supported platforms
• Provide training/mentorship for junior level team members
• Escalation point on multiple engagements to ensure resolution

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5 + years of experience administering HPC clusters and systems
• Experience with SLURM and Grid Engine scheduling software preferred
• 5 + years of professional experience in Solution Architecture or Cloud Infrastructure Deployment and support
• 5+ years professional experience developing or administering compute solutions for Scientific / Research IT domains, Life Sciences being preferred
• Experience with POSIT products (Package Manager, Connect, Workbench) either in an end-user or administrator capacity
• Experience developing scientific workflows on HPC systems using Nextflow
• Extensive command-line system administration experience: User and group management
• Advanced knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, NFS, SMB
• Building applications from source code, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting application-level Linux and scientific software in line with industry best practices
• Installation of Linux operating system and fine tuning
• Familiarity with leveraging and maintaining Linux package management systems
• Intermediate OS level networking knowledge
• Experience using with scripting tools, automation tools, and configuration management tools
• Ansible, Terraform and Cloud Formation experience preferred
• Experience administering and integrating Scientific / Research applications.
• Strong time-management skills; able to complete projects in a timely manner, plan and prioritize tasks while keeping leadership and stakeholders updated regularly on status
• Excellent communication skills, including preparation of written documentation for IT colleagues and end users
• Proactive thinking skills to identify potential issues and solution options prior to incidents occurring
• Extreme attention to detail is needed to interface with multi different clients simultaneously
• Ability to understand and analyze complex technical problems and situations
• Candidates must be a passionate engineer with a strong vision and a desire to stay on top of trends in the Scientific Computing sector.
• Ability to work independently or with a team
• Ability to take a project from start to finish with minimal supervision

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Cloud
• DNS
• Google Cloud Platform
• Linux
• NFS
• Terraform

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Company-provided Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Company-sponsored 401(k) Plan
• Company-provided continuing education benefit
• Team-focused culture and unlimited opportunity for advancement