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job summary:
Randstad Federal is seeking a Staff Systems Administator in supporting of a federal contract with NASA. location: Mountain View, Californiajob type: Contractsalary: $50 - 60 per hourwork hours: 8am to 4pmeducation: Bachelors responsibilities:Duties and Responsibilities:- Supercomputing and Infrastructure System Administration that contributes to:
- Installation, provisioning, and/or rebuilding systems in both HPC and infrastructure environments
- Patching of assigned systems to NASA requirements
- Maintain, extend, and develop customized scripts to support user, monitoring, and general system administration
- Day-to-day operational escalation of the Linux HPC clusters and storage systems
- Proactive monitoring, analyze, and correct system issues
- Development of scripts to automate repetitive tasks or tools to enhance support of the HPC and infrastructure systems
- System performance analysis and tuning
- Building, installing, and supporting user-requested software
- Supporting evaluation and assessment of new HPC technology
- Resolving user report issues and manage support tickets requests in Remedy
- Staff support resource for a myriad of HPC and Infrastructure Systems
- Operationalize completed projects appropriate knowledge transfer to tiered support groups
- Work extensively with HPC vendors and architects on bug fixes, kernel updates, and feature releases
- Apply best practices in systems engineering, delivering projects on time, on budget, with excellent quality
- After hours/weekend support as required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
- strong computer science background with in-depth systems-level knowledge in operating systems and networking
- A minimum of 3 years of Systems Engineering and Integration experience in heterogeneous, multi-platform HPC and Linux environments
- Solid understanding of the systems engineering process, including requirements, use cases, design, documentation, and testing in a Linux environment
- Demonstrated equivalence of 3 years of Linux/UNIX user support and hands-on experience with administration of Linux systems
- Superior scripting skills and excellent attention to detail; proficiency in at least Python, Perl, or Bash
- Excellent communication and people skills; excellent time management and organizational skills
- Experience with system configuration management tools e.g. , puppet, chef, ansible
- Experience with revision control software e.g. CVS, SVN, Git
- Proficiency at technical writing
- Familiarity/proficiency with OpenMP and Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming
- Experience with Lustre, and InfiniBand
- Experience with HPC schedulers (PBS, Slurm, Moab/Torque, SGE)
- Experience level: Experienced
- Minimum 3 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors
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