<div dir="ltr">If anyone knows a Linux savvy graduate student or recent grad that is proficient in the HPC environment, they may be interested in the opportunity below at DeVine Consulting. The requirements are supposed to be flexible (except the citizenship requirement). DeVine does quite a bit of government contract work involving earth sciences (modeling, etc):<br><br><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">DeVine is a leading provider of technical solutions
for Federal, State and local agencies. We're in the business of
ensuring our employees' and clients' long-term success.<br>
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Our company is looking for a <b>Linux System Administrator, HPC</b> (High
Performance Computing) to join our team in Monterey, CA. This position
will be supporting a government customer, hence only US Citizens may
apply. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Our client's High
Performance Computing team provides project and research support
requiring high-level computational capacity. The <b>Linux System Administrator, HPC</b> (High Performance Computing)<b> </b>will
act as lead for HPC systems including; servers, switches, backup
systems, and disk arrays, with an emphasis on MPI and Hadoop software
stacks.<br>
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<b>Responsibilities: <br>
</b><br>
- Install and maintain user applications, system patches and libraries<br>
- Coordinate with other HPC team members to prioritize and accomplish assigned tasks<br>
- Provide and implement recommendations for improved performance,
including the evaluation and implementation of emerging technologies<br>
- Implement highly available storage systems using various filesystems including Lustre, ZFS, and ext3/4<br>
- Implement tape archival systems to ensure retention of critical data assets<br>
- Implement system security hardening in accordance with established information assurance policies<br>
- Prepare technical briefings<br>
- Create and maintain online documentation for users, develop and
maintain up to date SOPs on system design and software architecture of
HPC systems<br>
- Respond to user requests for assistance<br>
- Support the development and refining of scheduling policies for the batch queuing system (currently MOAB / PBS / Torque)<br>
- Provide support for Infiniband interconnect<br>
- Provide support for GPU computation<br>
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<b>Requirements:<br>
</b><br>
At least 5 years of recent demonstrable experience with the following:</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Working with thousand-core order-of-magnitude computer clusters including system administration of MPI software stack</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">System administration of Redhat / CentOS Linux operating systems</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Tape archival systems</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Installation of compilers and application software</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">License managers</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">GPGPU–based computers including relevant software</li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">At least 1 year of recent demonstrable experience with:</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">System administration of the Hadoop software stack</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Lustre or equivalent filesystem (eg. GPFS, CEPH FS, BeeGFS, ZFS)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Working knowledge of InfiniBand or similar high speed interconnect concepts and related performance monitoring highly desired</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">High-speed network interfaces (10 Gbit/s or more)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">SLURM batch queuing system</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Experience creating and delivering presentations to various audiences</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Experience creating written user documentation</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Ability to create and deliver presentations to various audiences and the ability to provide written user documentation</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Security + or other IATII equivalent certificate preferred </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in">Redhat / CentOS Linux administration certificate preferred </li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About the position: </b><br>
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Position Type: Full-time, Must be U.S. Citizen<br>
Location: Monterey, CA<br>
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Life Insurance, Paid Holidays, Paid Sick Leave and PTO<br>
Compensation: DOE<br>
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<b>Equal Opportunity Employer </b><br>
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We are committed to a policy of assuring that all applicants for
employment are recruited, hired and assigned on the basis of
qualifications and merit without discrimination based on any protected
classification, including, but not limited to, race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status,
age, disability, handicap, marital status, or any other characteristic
protected by applicable law. <br></p></div>