HPC Administrator III

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• Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations of Gulfstream's production HPC cluster.
• Assist end users running applications on the HPC cluster.
• Provide third level support for end users who experience problems on engineering workstations and remote visualization systems.
• Manage, maintain, monitor, and control interactive and batch processes, both scheduled and unscheduled (including on-request processing).
• Ensure engineering-defined batch processing and backups are completed in the correct sequence and within the established time periods.
• Suggest improvements to processing capabilities and efficiencies through system tuning and other hardware and software optimizations and improvements.
• Perform regular monitoring of utilization needs and efficiencies, and reporton tuning initiatives.
• Perform proactive failure trend analysis and root cause analysis for all system failures.
• Produce trend reports to highlight production issues and follow predetermined action and escalation procedures when issues are encountered.

• Maintain technical relationships with multiple hardware and software vendors.
• Work multiple operational windows as required.
• Provide on-call support 24x7
• Assist in development and implementation of technical, hardware and software standards.
• Experience with management of infiniband-based Linux-based HPC clusters, high performance parallel storage, and configuration and management of cluster scheduling software.
• Experience managing High Performance Computing low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnects.

• Experience supporting Linux based scientific workstations running visualization applications.
• Monitor, verify, and make appropriate adjustments to support proper application executions.
• Provide technical solutions that meet performance and processing objectives of the business areas.
• Perform upgrades that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices.
• Provide leadership to HPC Administrators during system upgrades and outages.
• Create thorough upgrade plans that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices.
• Assist in the introduction of new technologies that can provide greater capabilities, improved productivity and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Participate in the design of HPC technical solutions.
• Continuously evaluate efficiency, existing technology effectiveness and interoperability and suggest areas for improvement.

• Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related curriculum or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• A Masters degree may be used to offset one year of experience requirement; PhD may offset two years of experience.
• 7 years experience required in HPC or scientific computing environment to include the installation, configuration and maintenance of Redhat Package Manager (RPM)-based Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE).

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