Senior HPC Administrator (IMC - 003)

SageCor Solutions•College Park, MD

About The Position

Serving Maryland and the Greater Washington D.C. area, SageCor Solutions (SageCor) is a growing company bringing complete engineering services and true full lifecycle System Engineering services to areas requiring (or desiring) nationally-recognized expertise in high performance computing, large data analytics and cutting edge information technologies. Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph required.

Requirements

Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph
Experience administering Linux-based servers and HPC clusters, including job schedulers (e.g., Slurm, LSF, PBS)
Experience configuring and managing Virtual Private Network (VPN) clients and servers
Scripting/programming skills (C and Python)
Knowledge of System automation tools (e.g., Ansible)
Knowledge of System provisioning tools (e.g., Warewolf)
Knowledge of Distributed storage systems (e.g., Lustre, BeeGFS)
Knowledge of Containerization (e.g., Docker, Apptainer)
Knowledge of Installing, maintaining and using infrastructure and performance monitoring and optimization tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
Knowledge of Setting up and executing benchmarks in an HPC environment and analyzing their results systematically

Nice To Haves

Preferably meets DoD 8140.01 or DoD 8570.01-M training and certification requirements

Responsibilities

Configure and manage Linux and Windows (or other applicable) operating systems and installs/loads operating system software, troubleshoot, maintain integrity of and configure network components, along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve security, reliability, and performance
Administer, monitor, and maintain HPC systems, including compute nodes, storage, networking, and software stacks
Provide support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client/server/storage/network devices, mobile devices, etc.
Implement and maintain automation tools for system provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring.
Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems
Manage the daily activities of configuration and operation of IT systems
Provide assistance to users in accessing and using IT systems
Optimize system operations and resource utilization, and perform system capacity analysis and planning
Provide in-depth experience in trouble-shooting IT systems
Analyze and resolve complex problems associated with server hardware, applications and software integration
Contribute to performance benchmarking, system tuning, and capacity planning
Support researchers by providing technical expertise and resolving IT-related roadblocks or issues
Document system administration procedures and contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives