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Chief HPC Engineer Remote
Chief HPC Engineer Description
We are currently seeking an experienced Chief HPC Engineer to manage the daily operations and engineering activities within our HPC environment.
The perfect candidate should be proficient in engineering with substantial expertise in setting up and enhancing HPC infrastructure. This role will involve collaboration with our L3 HPC infrastructure engineering team to facilitate the use of an HPC cluster by our Scientific research team. Priority will be given to candidates residing in India, though the position is available to candidates from any location.
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Responsibilities
- Maintenance and support of the HPC infrastructure
- Implementation of infrastructure automation through IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Participation in software and hardware upgrades while resolving incidents
- Management of job scheduling and resource distribution with HPC job schedulers
- Configuration and installation of Bright Cluster Manager
- Optimization and maintenance of GPFS/Lustre file systems
- Supervision of InfiniBand/OmniPath network interconnect configurations
Requirements
- 10+ years as a general technical expert in HPC
- Background in engineering or HPC system development
- Experience in configuring and supporting HPC infrastructure
- Proficiency in Linux (any rpm-based) including knowledge of kernel modules compilation and debugging tools such as strace, coredump, and tcpdump
- Skills in managing HPC job schedulers including IBM LSF and Slurm
- Competency in configuring and installing Bright Cluster Manager
- Familiarity with GPFS and Lustre file systems
- Understanding of InfiniBand and OmniPath network interconnect technologies
Nice to have
- Understanding of hardware diagnostics, upgrades, and tuning including HCA InfiniBand and disk arrays from Lustre, Vast, IBM
- Skills in infrastructure monitoring using Zabbix, Splunk, or Grafana
- Familiarity with Easybuild
- Experience in a GxP environment
- Capability to use Jira and ServiceNow
