HPC Systems Engineer

UCSF•San Francisco, CA

1d•$120,000 - $196,000

About The Position

The CoreHPC team at UCSF is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer to play a key role in the development, maintenance, and day-to-day operations of the Institute’s HPC clusters. The HPC Systems Engineer will apply advanced systems infrastructure concepts and skills to the operations and improvement of large-scale and highly complex research Cyber Infrastructure (CI) with unique computing, networking, and storage systems designed to address cutting-edge research problems. They will apply their engineering and design skills to develop new CI solutions, and to develop and enhance monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems. They will select methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to develop new CI solutions to address complex research problems. This role involves being an active member of the support and maintenance efforts for the CoreHPC cluster, resolving user issues, fixing technical problems, resolving outages, patching, and maintaining systems' uptime and availability. The position also includes providing consultation, support, and guidance to researchers on how to address computational problems using standard tools, packages, and approaches, and developing enhancements of monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems. The engineer will participate in multiple technical projects simultaneously, apply working knowledge of security control frameworks to maintain the integrity of the CI systems and the research being performed on them, and give presentations to the associated team and other technical units. Additionally, they will evaluate new technologies, including performing moderate to complex cost/benefit analyses. This position may lead to cross-functional technical working groups and projects in support of onboarding research customers, or making systems improvements.

Requirements

Advanced systems infrastructure concepts and skills
Engineering and design skills
Ability to develop and enhance monitoring systems
Ability to select methods, techniques and evaluation criteria
Experience in support and maintenance of HPC clusters
Ability to resolve user issues, fix technical problems, and resolve outages
Experience with patching and maintaining systems' uptime and availability
Ability to provide consultation, support, and guidance to researchers
Experience with security control frameworks
Ability to participate in multiple technical projects simultaneously
Ability to evaluate new technologies and perform cost/benefit analyses

Responsibilities

Apply advanced systems infrastructure concepts and skills to the operations and improvement of large-scale and highly complex research Cyber Infrastructure (CI) with unique computing, networking, and storage systems designed to address cutting-edge research problems
Apply engineering and design skills to develop new CI solutions, and to develop and enhance monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems
Select methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to develop new CI solutions to address complex research problems
Be an active member of the support and maintenance efforts for the CoreHPC cluster, resolving user issues, fixing technical problems, resolving outages, patching, and maintaining systems' uptime and availability
Provides consultation, support, and guidance to researchers on how to address computational problems using standard tools, packages, and approaches
Develop enhancements of monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems
Participate in multiple technical projects simultaneously
Applies working knowledge of security control frameworks to maintain the integrity of the CI systems and the research being performed on them
Gives presentations to the associated team and other technical units
Evaluates new technologies, including performing moderate to complex cost/benefit analyses