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Opportunity: Senior High Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer (#9621) @ CSRA -- Rockville, MD (US)
Submitted by Dr. David Pot; posted on Friday, August 19, 2016
BACKGROUND
We are seeking an innovative, dedicated, and highly-motivated High Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer to solve challenging problems for our client, a large scientific and medical research agency. If working with a 2000+ core HPC cluster, implementing and supporting bioinformatics applications for a large research community, and creating scalable and optimal solutions sounds interesting to you, then please apply.
The High Performance Computing Engineer will be responsible for the architecture design, life-cycle upgrades, and feature enhancements for a 2000+ core high performance compute cluster designed to support genomics, molecular dynamics, proteomics, phylogenetics, and deep learning research. In this role as a Sr. HPC Engineer, you will develop and implement innovative and complex solutions, ensuring that upgrades and changes comply with established guidelines and processes. You will monitor and report on cluster performance, install and configure complex bioinformatics applications, and assist with the resolution of the most difficult system problems. The Sr. HPC Engineer will help further develop and execute high performance computing solutions using cluster/grid technologies. You will be a leading expert on high performance computing and mentor colleagues.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Apply in-depth HPC and Linux expertise to collaborate with stakeholders across IT and domain disciplines to expand HPC use in support of world class, cutting-edge scientific research.
- Collaborate with NIAID researchers to understand their scientific pipelines and then implement efficient, technical solutions to meet their needs.
- Develop functional and technical IT system requirements and specifications, conduct needs analysis, planning and scheduling the installation of a wide variety of new or modified hardware/software.
- Advise on HPC technology directions and investments and make technical presentations to other technical personnel and department leadership.
- Utilize scripting and automation tools like Puppet to install software on the cluster.
- Support parallel file systems such as IBM Spectrum Scale.
- Support high performance clusters with schedulers like Grid Engine.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors degree and 6+ years experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5+ years of experience with Linux/Unix variants, especially RedHat/RHEL and its derivatives
- 5+ years of experience supporting high performance clusters with schedulers like Grid Engine (in any variant) or others such as PBS, Moab, or SLURM.
- Hands-on experience supporting parallel file systems such as IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS), or Luster, PNFS, etc.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of popular Bioinformatics applications and ability to compile, package, install, and upgrade software as well as assist researchers with configuring job submission scripts and troubleshooting application issues
- Scripting experience (Perl, Python, Ruby, R, or bash, etc.)
- Automation/configuration management experience (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc.)
Competencies:
- Able to clearly present ideas to both technical and non-technical users in formal and informal settings
- Demonstrated decision-making skills and leadership ability to assist with management of project portfolio and daily operations for team
PREFERENCES
- SAN/NAS hardware experience
- Experience architecting and supporting Infiniband networks
- Experience running parallel jobs with OpenMP or MPI
- Knowledge of GPU computation and CUDA
- Experience configuring and running BrightCluster Management Software
TERMS
Position is for full time employment with CSRA.
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