Data Center Engineer

Trilyon, Inc.; Suwanee (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Trilyon Inc. in Suwanee, GA, is seeking a detail-oriented IT professional to support hardware emulation and prototyping datacenters and infrastructure.

This role sits within a central VBU methodology team and collaborates with AMD units to deliver state-of-the-art compute and adaptive silicon technologies. You will work with external vendors and AMD teams to plan, configure, and deploy new hardware/software solutions, manage on-prem and cloud clusters, and ensure uptime through audits and

Qualifications

• Fluent Unix administration and system configuration.
• Experience with enterprise emulation or prototyping systems.
• Lab/datacenter space management in constrained spaces.
• Focus on continuous improvement of hardware resources.

Responsibilities

• LSF/Slurm administration and maintenance across clusters (on-prem and cloud).
• Interface with IT to deploy hardware and resolve infra issues.
• Collaborate with vendors to deploy hardware/software in AMD environment.
• Work with internal teams to develop use scenarios and triage issues.
• Maintain hardware and perform mass OS deployments and data-center support.

Skills

Unix admin

System configuration

Datacenter management

AI workflow integration

Hardware emulation

VBU methodology

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering or IT Certificate

Tools

RHEL8/RHEL9

Bash

Python

Ansible

Puppet

cfengine

pxeboot

Job description

Trilyon Inc. is a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading organizations,

including Fortune 500 companies, helping them solve complex business challenges

through customized workforce and consulting solutions. With a strong presence

across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC.

Location: Suwanee GA 30024 and required to be onsite at the DC center

Contract Term: 12 Months (possibility of extension)

Job Description

THE ROLE

In this role the individual will work with external vendors and internal AMD teams across business units to deliver industry leading Hardware Emulation and Prototyping datacenter solutions to allow the company to meet challenges in producing state of the art compute, graphics and adaptive silicon technologies.

THE PERSON

Looking for a detail-oriented individual with excellent communication skills to support and develop hardware emulation and prototyping datacenters and infrastructure. This position is part of AMD’s Virtual Bring-Up (VBU) central methodology team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• LSF/Slurm administration and maintenance, analyzing jobs and job data, handling user requests and incidents using current tools and recommending new ones. Supporting multiple/distributed clusters on-prem and cloud. Managing server platform hardware upgrades, Datacenter migrations, and system firmware/software patching.
• Interface with IT Teams to deploy new hardware and resolve issues with existing infrastructure software toolsets.
• Work with external vendors to plan, configure and deploy new hardware / software solutions within AMD's engineering environment.
• Work closely with internal customer teams to develop and deploy new use scenarios and triage and root-cause issues in current production configurations and use-models.
• Responsible for installing, maintaining and repairing hardware, configuring vendors software tools to manage operating system mass deployments & supporting data center infrastructure to accommodate growth.
• Execution of audits of data centers to ensure up time of facility by software reporting tools, reporting on power and cooling usages.
• Responsible for inventory management of data center operational materials.
• Maintain audits to support space planning forecasting. Management to build out related racks and rack infrastructure to plan for hardware installations and moves.
• Responsible for the asset documentation into a Data center infrastructure management tool (DCIM).
• Providing hardware support for IT assets following incident management/change management workflows.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Fluent in Unix administration, configuration, driver installation, and general system configuration.
• Enterprise level emulation or prototyping system management and maintenance.
• Physical lab or datacenter space management & system organization in a limited space.
• Focus on continuous improvement to keep the hardware resources running as efficiently as possible.
• Hardware support for datacenter systems and infrastructure.
• AI workflow integration / augmentation.

PREFERRED SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

• RHEL8 / RHEL9
• Bash / Perl / Python
• Ansible / Puppet / cfengine / pxeboot

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Preferred BS in Computer Science/Engineering or Technical IT Certificate