Data Center Technician

VIVA USA Inc; Suwanee (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

VIVA USA Inc is seeking a detail-oriented data center engineer to manage hardware emulation and prototyping datacenters. You will work with external vendors and internal teams to support and develop infrastructure for state-of-the-art compute and AI workloads.

You will handle cluster administration, hardware deployments, and asset management within a centralized VBU framework, onsite at the DC center.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering or Technical IT Certificate preferred.
• Experience with LSF/Slurm administration and maintenance.
• Proficiency in Unix administration, driver installation, and system configuration.
• Experience with enterprise emulation or prototyping systems.
• Strong datacenter space management and inventory organization.

Responsibilities

• Administrate LSF/Slurm, analyze jobs and data, handle user requests and incidents.
• Support multiple clusters on-prem and in the cloud; manage hardware upgrades.
• Interface with IT teams to deploy hardware and resolve infra issues.
• Collaborate with vendors to plan and deploy hardware/software in engineering env.
• Triage issues, maintain audits, and document assets in the DCIM tool.
• Ensure uptime of data centers and manage space, racks, and migrations.

Skills

LSF/Slurm Administration

Unix administration

System management

Data center space management

Continuous improvement

Hardware support

AI workflow integration

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering or Technical IT Certificate

Tools

Bash

Perl

Python

Ansible

Puppet

cfengine

pxeboot

Device42

Nagios

PowerBI

RHEL8

RHEL9

Job description

THE ROLE

In this role the individual will work with external vendors and internal client 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 client’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 the client'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

• LSF/Slurm Administration/Use 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
• Device42 / Nagios / PowerBI

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

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

Notes

Required to be onsite at the DC center

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status