Junior HPC Engineer

ASRC Federal, InuTeq is searching for a Junior HPC Engineer to support InuTeq LLC out of NASA AMES, CAASRC Federal, InuTeq proudly supports NASA's High-Performance Computing Services program with our site in Mountain View, CA at the Ames Research Center. Make a DIFFERENCE on a program that supports 4 On-site Supercomputers totaling ~17,000 nodes and 25+ combined petaflops. This program provides High-Performance Computing services throughout the HPC lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, to our NASA customer. Our employees embrace innovation and are committed to a culture of continuous, standards-driven process improvement, and assimilation of industry best practices.Summary: The successful candidate will be an active supporting 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 administration experience working with HPC clusters in small to medium size environments. Under direction of senior members of the team, this individual will be engaged in the day-to-day HPC operations and support of the infrastructure resources. Activities may include system patching, OS upgrades, deploying new systems, writing scripts, and troubleshooting system issues. The ability to interact with users to determine symptoms and then reproduce their issues to isolate the causes are critical skills for this work. There will also be activities supporting testing, benchmarking, user tool scripting, and analyzing trouble tickets to find patterns indicating system, or user education issues.Duties and Responsibilities:Supercomputing and Infrastructure System Administration that contributes to:Installation, provisioning, and/or rebuilding systems in both HPC and infrastructure environmentsPatching of assigned systems to NASA requirementsMaintain, extend, and develop customized scripts to support user, monitoring, and general system administrationDay-to-day operational escalation of the Linux HPC clusters and storage systemsProactive monitoring, analyze, and correct system issuesDevelopment of scripts to automate repetitive tasks or tools to enhance support of the HPC and infrastructure systemsSystem performance analysis and tuningBuilding, installing, and supporting user-requested softwareSupporting evaluation and assessment of new HPC technologyResolving user report issues and manage support tickets requests via Remedy ticketing systemStaff support resource for a myriad of HPC and Infrastructure SystemsOperationalize completed projects appropriate knowledge transfer to tiered support groupsWork extensively with HPC vendors and architects on bug fixes, kernel updates, and feature releasesApply best practices in systems engineering, delivering projects on time, on budget, with excellent qualityAfter hours/weekend support as requiredRequirements:Bachelor's degree in computer science or related fieldStrong computer science background with in-depth systems-level knowledge in operating systems and networkingA minimum of 1-3 years of Systems Engineering and Integration experience in heterogeneous, multi-platform HPC and Linux environmentsSolid understanding of the systems engineering process, including requirements, use cases, design, documentation, and testing in a Linux environmentDemonstrated equivalence of 1-3 years of Linux/UNIX user support and hands-on experience with administration of Linux systemsSuperior scripting skills and excellent attention to detail; proficiency in at least Python, Perl, or BashExcellent communication and people skills; excellent time management and organizational skillsExperience with system configuration management tools e.g. , puppet, chef, ansibleExperience with revision control software e.g. CVS, SVN, GitProficiency at technical writingPreferred Skills:Familiarity/proficiency with OpenMP and Message Passing Interface (MPI) programmingExperience with Lustre, and InfiniBandAdministration Experience with HPC schedulers (PBS, Slurm, Moab/Torque, SGE)