What are the responsibilities and job description for the HPC Technical Expert position at TekStream Solutions?
*There is another need in Annapolis Junction, MD if you are more interested in that location.
We have an immediate need for an experienced HPC Technical Expert/Functional Expert for a new customer on a strategic High-Performance Computing (HPC) program. The HPC Technical Expert/Functional Expert will need to be a self-starter with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, flexibility, good judgment, and the ability to work within a team to mature the HPC capabilities of our customer.
Primary Responsibilities:
Provide Tier IV HPC support to HPC site.
Basic Qualifications:
- Candidates shall have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and twelve (12) years of experience in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise, or a master’s degree with ten (10) years of experience. In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, the individual shall have five (5) years of full-time computer science experience and at least ten (10) years in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise. An industry recognized professional certification as listed below may substitute as one (1) year experience.
- Experience providing industry and government recognized functional expertise with the following skills:
- Configuration, tuning, testing and advanced level troubleshooting and support of high-performance file systems such as XFS, GPFS and Lustre.
- Advanced level troubleshooting and support of HPC farm systems and associated applications such as Nagios, xcat, failover software, and compilers.
- Working knowledge of HPC MPP systems.
- Configuration, tuning, testing and advanced level troubleshooting and support of distributed computing tools such as RES, LSF, and SLURM.
- Configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced level troubleshooting of RedHat and Suse operating systems.
- IAT Level II Certification Required. Accepted professional IAT Level II certifications include RHCSA or higher Red Hat certification, and/or VMWare certification.
- Must possess a TS/SCI clearance with FS polygraph
