HPC Systems Administrator

Hi InfiCare has been providing Contingent Staffing and Direct Hire staffing services to its clients across the US and in four continents Since 2001. Starting from a modest beginning in 2001, today we service clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to medium sized businesses as well as small niche firms. In US we are based at Dulles, VA. We are hiring "HPC Systems Administrator" for one of our clients. Job Title: HPC Systems Administrator Location: Remote/WOrk from home Duration: 6+ Months Contract Role Job Description: Manage multi-vendor filesystems such as XFS and GPFS including upgrades, patching, space management, GPFS cluster management, diagnostics Manage workload schedulers torque and slurm including upgrades, patches, diagnostics, user resource consumption and configuration Manage Bright cluster management software including creating and maintaining images, managing job schedules and upgrades/patching Installation and configuration of hardware, operating systems, and commercial software packages managing user accounts, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocate mass storage space Job Responsibilities Installation, configuration, fine-tuning, and troubleshooting multi-vendor Linux HPC servers Building and deploying open source software and software from vendors/partners Diagnosing and resolving system operational problems quickly and effectively Verifying full operation of systems including network, systems and storage performance Configuration of the scheduling and queuing system Troubleshoot and maintain Infiniband and ethernet networks Understands, maintains, supports high performance parallel storage system Assists users/research team running applications on the HPC cluster Manage, maintain, monitor and control interactive and batch processes (scheduled and unscheduled) Requirements Expert knowledge of HPC server hardware including HP, Dell Expert knowledge of CentOS and Red Hat Expert knowledge of related parallel distributed file system like IBM GPFS Advanced knowledge of cluster storage systems including Isilon Advanced knowledge of the Linux Operating system such as: kernel compiles, boot up command line options, selinux, rpm, yum Advanced level of proficiency with NIS, NFS, autofs, TCP/IP, Linux network configuration, local storage, lmsensors, ipmi required Intermediate knowledge of HPC resource Managers such as PBS, Torque and Moab Intermediate level of knowledge with Bash, Perl, PHP, awk, sed, grep, HTML Intermediate skill with scripting tools and leveraging solutions Ability to provide day-to-day 24 x 7 and participate in on-call rotation Must be able to lift and move 40lbs Systems Administration Advanced RHEL systems administration including hardware set up, upgrades, patching Remediation of vulnerabilities Performance tuning and server hardening Disk space management Diagnostics (slowness, nodes down, etc) Software experience Torque Slurm Bright Moab Mathlab Experience working with containers (docker, singularity, podman, kubernetes) a plus Experience in working with Git and supporting CI/CD pipelines a plus Should you be interested, please send me a copy of your resume in Word/PDF format along with the following details ASAP. Full Name: Current Location: Work Authorization: Salary / Rate expectation: Thanks & Regards Saurabh Kumar InfiCare Technologies| 22375 Broderick Drive #225 Dulles VA 20166 |Direct | www.infiCareTech.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-kumar-33956a17a/ Staffing Services since 2001 MBE Certified Recipient of Annual si100 Award The annual si100 award is given to companies "which display the characteristics of long-term visibility, sustained growth, business focus, profitability and customer and employee value-creation. The esteemed list consists of companies that have made a mark in their area of expertise."