HPC Architect

Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a HPC Architect on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer.  All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

Responsibilities

• Leads the technical operations including the architect, design, expansion, monitoring, support, and maintenance for High Performance Computing environment

• Leads the troubleshooting, isolation and resolution of all technical issues

• Leads the design, development, implementation, and management of all system administration tasks, including hardware and software configuration, configuration management, system monitoring (including the development and maintenance of regression tests), usage reporting, system performance (file systems, scheduler, interconnect, high availability, etc.), security, networking and metrics, etc.

• Ensures that the design and operation of the HPC ecosystem is productive for geospatial analysis and workflows

• Collaborates effectively with internal and external stakeholders, compliance, security and other departments to ensure compliance with all regulations and IT policies.

• Partners with other peers regionally, nationally and internationally to discover, propose and deploy a world-class HPC infrastructure

• Prepares and manages budgets for hardware, software and maintenance. Participates in chargeback/fee recovery analysis and provides suggestions to make operations sustainable.

• Leads the integration of on-prem HPC resources with complimentary cloud-based resources

• Researches, deploys and optimizes resource management and scheduling software and policies   

• Designs, tunes, manages and upgrades parallel file systems, storage and data-oriented resources.

• Researches, deploys and manages security infrastructure, including development of policies and procedures.

• Leads and assist the team to resolve user support requests.

• Assists in developing and writing system design documentation.

• Leads the development of a framework for effective system documentation.

• Works effectively and productively with other team members

Qualifications

Clearance Required:  TS/SCI 

Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or another scientific field. Master's or PhD preferred. 

• 8 years of progressive HPC system administration and operations (preferably in a Redhat/CentOS Linux administration, Batch HPC cluster environment)

Required Skills:

• Must be an expert troubleshooter; Must be a team player and customer focused

• Strong experience with configuration management systems such as xCAT, Puppet and/or Ansible

• Strong experience with networking and security

• Strong experience with Infiniband,100/400g Ethernet, or RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)

• Experience with Nvidia CUDA platform

• Experience with NetApp, VAST and clustered file systems and object storage

• Experience with providing technical operations leadership

• Ability to manage a variety of disparate tasks and priorities independently and troubleshoot complex technology problems.

• Attention to detail; time and project management skills.

• Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment and management skills, and the ability to work effectively as a liaison between both research and technology teams.

• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills

• Script and programming experience

About Abile Group, Inc.

Abile Group, Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management, IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients.  We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support, crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients’ subject matter experience and Abile’s breadth of expertise. 

EEO Statement

Abile Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.  Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email careers@abilegroup.com with requested details.  A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days. 

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