Senior HPC Engineer

ASRC Federal is searching for a Senior HPC Engineer to support InuTeq LLC out of NASA AMES, CA ASRC Federal InuTeq provides High Performance Computing services throughout the HPC lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, and operations to federal government customers. Our employees embrace innovation and are committed to a culture of continuous, standards-driven process improvement, and assimilation of industry best practices. We are seeking to fill a senior role that primarily provides HPC Systems Engineering contributions in the form of continuous architectural enhancements and operational excellence in support of the NASA NACS High Performance Computing (HPC) contract. Summary: The successful candidate will be an senior proactive member of the ASRC Federal team reporting directly to the Manager of the HPC Computer Systems and Storage (CSS) group. An individual at this skill level should have demonstrated extensive experience working through all aspects of large scale HPC environments: designing, installing, maintaining, and upgrading of HPC systems.  Specific desired areas of expertise include common HPC batch schedulers e.g. (PBS, Slurm, or Moab/Torque) and InfiniBand troubleshooting and optimization. The perspective candidate, along with the entire HPC team, will be expected to engage in the day-to-day operations and support of the HPC resources. Activities may include system patching, OS upgrades, deploying new systems, writing scripts, and troubleshooting system issues on the HPC system while also contributing to the support of the scientific users of HPC resources on the various issues they might have getting applications to run efficiently. The ability to interact with users to determine symptoms, and then reproduce their issues to isolate the causes is critical skills for this work. There will also be activities in testing, benchmarking, user tool scripting, and analyzing trouble tickets to find patterns indicating system or user education issues. Duties and Responsibilities: Design, deploy and maintain HPC clusters with over 2000 nodes with InfiniBand, 100 petabytes of data storage in production. Shepherd and/or contribute to scalable feature designs through the entire software development process, from requirements and use cases to release Designs and develops scripts for system administration, monitoring and usage reporting. Modify existing software to correct errors and/or improve performance Designs and develops scripts for system regression test and performance (file systems (Luster), scheduler (PBS), interconnect (HDR/NDR, Slingshot, ), high availability, etc.). Troubleshoots, isolates and resolves application, system and other technical problems (hardware, software, and network). Understands research use cases, researches and deploys new technologies, defining cost, performance and other trade-offs. Manages and maintains tools for provisioning, configuration management (HPCM, Ansible & GIT), resource management, scheduling and all necessary aspects of HPC in accordance with best practices. Researches, deploys and manages networking and security infrastructure, including development of policies and procedures. Assists in developing and writing proposals and publications. Creates and provides clear documentation. Mentoring junior staff and cross training peers After hours/weekend support as required Moderate Supercomputing System Administration that contributes to: Day-to-day operations of the Linux HPC clusters and storage systems Proactive monitoring, analyze, and correct system issues Development of scripts to automate repetitive tasks or tools to enhance support of the HPC systems System performance analysis and tuning Building, installing, and supporting user-requested software Supporting evaluation and assessment of new HPC technology Resolving user report issues and manage support tickets requests in Remedy Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field Strong computer science background with in-depth systems-level knowledge in operating systems and networking A minimum of 10 years of experience in the administration of HPC systems and scheduling software (PBS, Slurm, or Moab/Torque) A minimum of 10 years of experience of systems programming in heterogeneous, multi-platform HPC environments Strong ability to analyze, debug and maintain the integrity of an existing code base Demonstrated equivalence of 5 years of Linux/UNIX user support experience and hands-on experience with administration of Linux systems Experience working with HPC applications and proficiency in at least C, C , or Fortran Superior scripting skills and excellent attention to detail; proficiency in at least Python, Perl, or Bash Strong ability to interact with customers to understand needs, elicit requirements, and get feedback on prototype solutions Excellent communication and people skills; excellent time management and organizational skills Experience with system configuration management tools e.g. , puppet, chef, ansible Experience with revision control software e.g. CVS, SVN, Git Track record of delivering commercial quality software on schedule with excellent quality through multiple release cycles Proficiency at documentation and technical writing Preferred Skills: Proficiency with analysis and problem-solving skills for debugging and optimization of applications Familiarity/proficiency with OpenMP and Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming Experience with Lustre, and InfiniBand Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), OpenStack or Kubernetes is a plus   This position is offering a pay range of $168,616.00- $286,700.00 depending on experience, seniority, geographic locations, and factors permitted by law.   EEO Statement We invest in the lives of our employees, both in and out of the workplace, by providing competitive pay and benefits packages. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law. ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.

Salary : $168,616 - $286,700