HPC System Admin

Job Title: HPC System Admin

Location: Remote (Client is in Tuscaloosa Alabama) – Some travel will be there Mainly initially to Client Location

Duration: Contract

Job Description:

Qualifications:

· The HPC Systems Administrator will help manage daily operations of HPC clusters, research storage, and other infrastructure and technologies. Will also monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize HPC nodes.

· This position will be responsible for hands-on configuring and installing new nodes, storage, infrastructure components, and HPC software.

· HPC systems administration tasks and user support. Providing day-to-day systems administration for UA’s HPC clusters, users, software, and research storage. Includes: Linux and HPC cluster management systems administration, user support, and troubleshooting hardware, software, and user issues.

· Installing and supporting new and repurposed HPC hardware (order, rack, cable, configure) for primary and smaller clusters.

· This role will develop and maintain HPC software and tools with the assistance of researchers and other engineers.

· Will also be responsible for assisting faculty and students with HPC use.

Additional Skills Needed

· Three years or more of experience of Linux systems administration (building software, run-time environment configuration, performance monitoring, and shell tools/scripting).

· Hands-on systems hardware/storage array installation and support experience.

· Experience compiling, configuring, and managing Linux-based software.

· Experience with Linux/Unix scripting (shell scripting, Perl, Python).

· Requires occasional travel to UA’s HPC facility in Birmingham, AL for hands-on cluster tasks.

Preferred Skills:

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field, like engineering, computer science, or other computational science.

• Experience using or supporting HPC clusters or experience supporting research computing in a scientific or technical environment.

• Experience using or supporting any of the following: GPUs, parallel programming techniques (MPI, OpenMPI), InfiniBand/Mellanox optics, cloud HPC, deploying common frameworks (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Pytorch, etc.), or data transfer networks (Globus).

• Programming/scripting experience with Conda, MATLAB, C, Java, or Mathematica.

Job Type: Contract

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location