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HPC Cluster Administrator
Job Location: Princeton, NJ
Position Type: Full-Time/Regular
Salary: DOQ
Instrumental is seeking a highly motivated individual interested in joining an enthusiastic team to provide all encompassing HPC and infrastructure system support services to the NOAA R&D HPCS program site in Princeton, NJ.
The position of HPC system administrator will be primarily to support the GFDL post-processing system. Other systems that will require support are the home file system appliance, archive storage system, job scheduler and other infrastructure systems. GFDL is a 24x7 site that may require after hours and weekend support.
Responsibilities
- Primarily maintaining the post-production system
- Installing and maintaining software on systems and user requested software
- Managing patching of systems for site and NOAA security requirements (may have to coordinate with several sites)
- System hardware support, diagnostics and repair
- Monitoring components and reporting system downtime
- Providing direct support to end customer and users
- End-to-end data transfer support (post-processing to tape archive system)
- Job scheduler operations and maintenance
- Work with multiple vendors for support and services
- After-hours for 24x7 support of site, schedule to be worked out with onsite personnel
- Capacity planning of systems for future upgrades of systems
- User and system documentation as necessary
Required Skills
- Linux system administration experience (RHEL, CentOS and SLES)
- Understanding of networking including network performance
- Storage configuration and performance tuning
- Ability to work directly with customers and users of systems
- Programming languages including C/Fortran
- Scripting languages such as Bash, Perl, etc.
- Ability to learn and implement new skills as required by the position
Desired Skills
- Knowledge of Dell hardware and software
- BlueArc experience or other NAS experience
- Nagios or other monitoring package experience
- xCAT cluster administration
- Puppet configuration management
- Moab scheduler or other scheduler experience
- Large scale storage experience (XFS, CXFS and DMF)
- Globus Toolkit (GridFTP) experience
Qualified applicants may be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum eligibility requirements for a National Agency Check (NAC). U.S. Citizenship is required.
Instrumental, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.
What's in it for you
- Competitive Salary and Benefits
- Growth Opportunity
- The ability to work on projects with high visibility
Travel required: Minimal
