Junior HPC Engineer

ASRC Federal•Mountain View, CA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

ASRC Federal, InuTeq is searching for a Junior HPC Engineer to support InuTeq LLC out of NASA AMES, CA ASRC Federal, InuTeq proudly supports NASA's High-Performance Computing Services program with our site in Mountain View, CA at the Ames Research Center. Make a DIFFERENCE on a program that supports 4 On-site Supercomputers totaling ~17,000 nodes and 25+ combined petaflops. This program provides High-Performance Computing services throughout the HPC lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, to our NASA customer. Our employees embrace innovation and are committed to a culture of continuous, standards-driven process improvement, and assimilation of industry best practices. Summary: The successful candidate will be an active supporting member of the ASRC Federal team reporting directly to the Manager of the HPC Computer Systems and Storage (CSS) group. An individual at this skill level should have demonstrated administration experience working with HPC clusters in small to medium size environments. Under direction of senior members of the team, this individual will be engaged in the day-to-day HPC operations and support of the infrastructure resources. Activities may include system patching, OS upgrades, deploying new systems, writing scripts, and troubleshooting system issues. The ability to interact with users to determine symptoms and then reproduce their issues to isolate the causes are critical skills for this work. There will also be activities supporting testing, benchmarking, user tool scripting, and analyzing trouble tickets to find patterns indicating system, or user education issues.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
Strong computer science background with in-depth systems-level knowledge in operating systems and networking
A minimum of 1-3 years of Systems Engineering and Integration experience in heterogeneous, multi-platform HPC and Linux environments
Solid understanding of the systems engineering process, including requirements, use cases, design, documentation, and testing in a Linux environment
Demonstrated equivalence of 1-3 years of Linux/UNIX user support and hands-on experience with administration of Linux systems
Superior scripting skills and excellent attention to detail; proficiency in at least Python, Perl, or Bash
Excellent communication and people skills; excellent time management and organizational skills
Experience with system configuration management tools e.g. , puppet, chef, ansible
Experience with revision control software e.g. CVS, SVN, Git
Proficiency at technical writing

Nice To Haves

Familiarity/proficiency with OpenMP and Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming
Experience with Lustre, and InfiniBand Administration
Experience with HPC schedulers (PBS, Slurm, Moab/Torque, SGE)

Responsibilities

Installation, provisioning, and/or rebuilding systems in both HPC and infrastructure environments
Patching of assigned systems to NASA requirements
Maintain, extend, and develop customized scripts to support user, monitoring, and general system administration
Day-to-day operational escalation of the Linux HPC clusters and storage systems
Proactive monitoring, analyze, and correct system issues
Development of scripts to automate repetitive tasks or tools to enhance support of the HPC and infrastructure systems
System performance analysis and tuning
Building, installing, and supporting user-requested software
Supporting evaluation and assessment of new HPC technology
Resolving user report issues and manage support tickets requests via Remedy ticketing system
Staff support resource for a myriad of HPC and Infrastructure Systems
Operationalize completed projects appropriate knowledge transfer to tiered support groups
Work extensively with HPC vendors and architects on bug fixes, kernel updates, and feature releases
Apply best practices in systems engineering, delivering projects on time, on budget, with excellent quality
After hours/weekend support as required