Local to Michigan only - Senior HPC Infrastructure Solutions Architect

HPC Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Lansing, MI

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

- 10 years in Linux system administration (Ubuntu, CLI, security, networking)

- 10 years in Bash & Python scripting, with pipeline automation experience (e.g., Nextflow)

- 10 years in Slurm workload manager installation, configuration, and job troubleshooting

- 10 years in cluster and storage management, including NAS (Qumulo), rsync, and mount strategies

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Interview Process: Virtual Interview via MS Teams. A screenshot photo of candidate will be required for any interviews as well as a vendor present at beginning of virtual interview to validate candidate.

Duration: 1 year with possible extension.

Accepting local candidates ONLY within 90 minutes from Lansing, MI. Position will be hybrid, in office 3 days a week upon start and there is NO REMOTE ONLY option.

Infrastructure Architect JD 141965

• Basic HPC security
• Implementing and maintaining data management infrastructure
• Providing support for SAN and NAS storage, backup/recovery environments and virtualization infrastructure by implementing, managing, and monitoring the hardware and software
• Playing a major role in the security, disaster recovery and services continuity of a highly available enterprise storage and backup infrastructure by following established procedures and compliance requirements
• Technical support (installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, retirement, troubleshooting).
• Configuration management using frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Administration of high-speed network storage systems including Mellanox switches, and NAS Cluster.
• Managing, configuring, and supporting cloud systems such as setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting cloud compute engines and storage buckets
• Managing databases(eg:SQL Server, PostGreSQL , MySQL, Oracle)
• Assisting staff to access and utilize computing resources
• Co-ordinating with Labs and DTMB staff on maintaining and managing the computational resources

Skills & Experiences

• 10 years experience with the Linux CLI environment and coding languages such as R, Python, Bash
• 10 years experience with workload management systems such as SLURM
• 10 years experience with setting up HPC systems including identifying suitable hardware and software needs
• 10 years experience with setting up and managing databases such as PostgreSQL
• 10 years experience performing System Administration including installation, configuration, and support software, packages, and libraries in various environments
• 10 years experience with Network Appliance clustered servers and applicable software
• 10 years experience with hands-on troubleshooting, issue resolution, discrepancy tracking, and report generation
• 10 years experience with Linux configuration regarding Storage, Networking, Load Balancing, Memory Management, VMs, Firewalls, and System Monitoring
• 10 years experience with computer security
• Knowledge of package management systems such as conda, Docker and Singularity
• Knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible or Puppet and NextFlow
• Experience with cloud computing (setting up compute engines, storage buckets)
• Strong knowledge of enterprise storage solutions
• Familiar with software frameworks used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data
• Ability to provide good recommendations, and guidance for storage and cost savings for Labs
• Knowledge and experience in HL7 messaging
• Ability to review and interpret web.config files for plugins and interpret them
• Ability to review logs(for eg:IIS logs, Dynatrace logs, etc) to make sure that there is no excess resource utilization and no peaks or spikes occurring on the web/app server
• Knowledge in ClouFlare, ForcePoint and the related rule(for eg.C86 rule) and the policies
• Ability to understand the existing junction configuration to the application and review those settings in case of a break
• Help the team with setting up Failover environment for Apps
• Help the team to complete the Disaster Recovery(DR) Plan and DR Testing
• Knowledge on CDC hosted apps(preferred, not a requirement)