Cadre5 · 21 hours ago
Senior Linux HPC Systems Engineer
Knoxville, TN
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expCadre5 is a company that provides innovative technical solutions and is seeking a Senior Linux HPC Systems Engineer to support the Information Technology Services Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The role involves designing, operating, and maintaining clusters and servers for scientific research while ensuring system performance and security.
ComputerSoftware
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Advocate and promote HPC and clustered computing services to researchers who process large data sets and/or develop code as a part of their project
Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of production systems
Leverage automation and monitoring solutions that minimize our day-to-day maintenance and scout opportunities to optimize system management practices or system performance
Collaborate with technical POCs for the programs that we support to install and help tune the performance of various scientific toolsets
Optimize both workflows and monitoring solutions to take advantage of our 24/7 operations staff, which significantly reduces the need for off-hours support. We use Email, Jira, Confluence, Teams, Slack, and other collaboration solutions to stay in contact
Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote equal opportunity by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success
Qualification
Required
A BS degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, information systems, science, engineering, business, or a related discipline and a minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years of aligned professional experience is required for consideration. An overall combination of equivalent education and experience may be considered
Masters' holders should have a minimum of seven (7) to ten (10) years of relevant and aligned experience
PhD holders should have a minimum of four (4) to six (6) years of relevant and aligned experience
Five (5) or more years with managing UNIX/Linux Systems
Three (3) or years of proven experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, or Puppet
Moderate proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, or others
Experience performing advanced troubleshooting and system administration with Linux Servers
Experience supporting large data systems
A strong desire to innovate and identify new technologies and opportunities and be able to communicate the potential benefits of those choices to others within the team and our research partners
A collaborative and upbeat approach to thrive on the opportunity to build trust and credibility and ultimately become a trusted advisor to our research teams
The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy 'Q' clearance is required. This requires US Citizenship
Preferred
Active DOE Q, active DOD Top Secret, or active DOD TS/SCI clearance is heavily preferred for consideration
Solid understanding of multiple operating systems and cluster technologies
Experience with Rocky/Centos/RHEL, Ubuntu, VMware
Understanding of HPC platforms to support users with SLURM job submissions and troubleshooting
Experience building and running containerized applications in an HPC environment
Experience with multiple deployment mechanisms like Diskless, Warewulf, and traditional deployment (cobbler, PXEboot, and/or Bright)
Experience managing systems utilizing GPU (NVIDIA and AMD) clusters for AI/ML and/or image processing
Knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, traffic analysis, common protocols, and network diagnostics
Experience with Infiniband networks and diagnostics
Extensive experience with High Performance Parallel File Systems (Lustre, WEKA, GPFS, etc)
Experience with performance and diagnostic tools for benchmarking, analysis and tuning of systems, networking, and storage
Experience with Grafana, CheckMK, Nagios, Zabbix, SolarWinds, Ganglia, or other network and device monitoring systems
Previous experience working in a government, scientific or other highly technical environment
Good documentation skills, including ability to prepare simple documentation web pages
Benefits
3 weeks’ vacation
Excellent medical insurance, including employer-paid benefits
Full medical, dental, and vision coverage coupled with 401K match
15 days PTO
10 holidays
Company
Cadre5
cadre5 is dedicated to building great software.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Steve Hicks
President / CEO
Chris O'Neal
Sr Partner / VP Software Eng
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