HPC System Administrator

Our multinational partner company is looking for a practical HPC systems administrator, who is interested in an exciting international R & D project in the area of climate change and radically shifting weather paterns. The projects prime focus is the development of a state-of-the-art environmental monitoring platform within Lake George, in the state of New York, USA.

Tasks:

• assisting in automating, implementing, monitoring and administering high performance computing infrastructure,

(clusters, distributed servers, hosting database-backed web applications)

• work from high-level specification/instruction,
• responsible for low level design and implementation,
• work in conjunction with  the distributed systems administrator, providing support for distributed servers, graphics workstations, and other Linux-based servers.

Requirements:

• experience with installing, configuring, and maintaining server class storage systems,
• networking (Infiniband, Ethernet) and shell scripting experience,
• Linux software OS and library/application level installation and system maintenance (RedHat, CentOS, or Ubuntu).

Advantage:

• X86 Virtual Machines (VMware ESX or KVM for instance)
• Nagios
• Cluster Management Software (Ganglia, xCat, Kubernetes, Slurm)
• networking experience (Physical to Logical, including firewall and security software)
• Python programming.
• Deb and RPM software packaging and installation,
• familiarity with one or more software configuration/change management tools (e.g. puppet).

What we offer:

• opportunity to participate in interesting and innovative projects,
• competitive salary package,
• opportunity to work from home,
• international team and professional working environment.