System Administrator IV - HPC

Leidos Holdings Inc. • Saratoga Springs, UT

61d • Onsite

About The Position

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos currently has an immediate need for an experienced System Administrator - IV HPC for a new customer on a strategic High-Performance Computing (HPC) program. The Senior System Administrator will need to be a self-starter with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, flexibility, good judgment, and the ability to work within a team to mature the HPC capabilities of our customer.

Requirements

• Must possess a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• IAT Level II Certification Required. Accepted professional IAT Level II certifications include RHCSA or higher Red Hat certification, and/or VMWare certification.
• Candidates shall have a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and twelve (12) years of experience in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise, or a master's degree with ten (10) years of experience. In lieu of a bachelor's degree, the individual shall have five (5) years of full-time computer science experience and at least ten (10) years in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise. An industry recognized professional certification as listed below may substitute as one (1) year experience.
• Experience with installation, configuration, tuning and support of:
• Multi-vendor servers running a plethora of COTS, open source, and in-house applications to accommodate HPC division IT support requirements.
• Multi-vendor servers running Redhat or SUSE with direct attached, FC SAN storage or SSDs.
• Distributing computing tools such as RES, LSF and SLURM
• HPC farm systems, HPC MPP clustered systems, Front End servers of SPDs.
• BM or HP Blade servers with FC/SAS/Network back end
• Multi-vendor file systems such as XFS, GPFS and Lustre
• Pre-Factory testing, factory testing, system integration and acceptance testing during the purchase process of HPC systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage essential infrastructure services, ensuring high availability and performance of data center services, physical and virtual server-class systems, and storage.
• Lead medium-to-large scale projects, design and implement system policies, conduct advance troubleshooting, and are pivotal in the direct recovery efforts during critical system failures.
• Mentor Tier I/II/III staff members.
• Ability to work alone and as part of larger team to complete projects on time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees