HPC Technical ExpertFunctional Expert

Omega Enterprise Solutions, LLC; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A Maryland-based technology firm is seeking an HPC Technical Expert to oversee the installation, configuration, and administration of multi-vendor servers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in high-performance computing environments, required certifications, and a Bachelor's degree. This role offers a dynamic opportunity focused on support for the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a large and complex IT environment providing recognized functional expertise.
• Experience in the installation and configuration of hardware and software.
• Valid professional certifications required (RHCSA, VMWare, IAT Level 2).

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, tune, and troubleshoot multi-vendor servers.
• Support and administer HPC systems and applications.
• Oversee enterprise services like DNS and security mechanisms.
• Implement backup and recovery strategies.

Skills

UNIX commands or utilities

Windows NT commands or utilities

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Installation and configuration

Troubleshooting

System administration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

IAT Level 2 Certification

Tools

Red Hat

SuSe

VMWare

Job description

HPC Technical Expert/Functional Expert

Omega Enterprise Solutions is a Maryland-based, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) with a special focus on the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) mission and enabling technologies. We are building a team with shared values and a passion towards our Vision and Mission. Along with providing professional growth opportunities that are innovatively challenging and mission critical to our clients, we emphasize a life-focused everyday approach. We are committed to life-long learning and provide a life-coaching method of management to empower and inspire you to become the best version of yourself in pursuit of a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.

Description

HPC Technical Expert experience shall include installation, configuration, and networking of UNIX and/or NT based platforms. This experience shall include: creating, modifying and deleting user accounts, performing system back-ups, and maintaining system configuration files. Individual shall have a fundamental understanding of operating systems and be familiar with either UNIX or NT commands or utilities at the user level. Experience shall include the installation and configuration of hardware, operating systems, and commercial software packages. Individual shall be able to develop and implement enterprise backup/recovery strategies, server configuration and consolidation, and verification of the health and status of the entire IT infrastructure. Individual shall be able to provide support for enterprise services such as DNS, NFS, email services, security protection mechanisms, and the interoperability of UNIX and NT based systems.

Responsibilities

• Installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting and administration of multi-vendor servers running numerous COTS, opensource, and in-house applications to accommodate HPC Division IT support requirements.
• Installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting and administration of multi-vendor servers running Red Hat or SuSe with direct attached FC SAN storage or SSDs.
• Distributing computing tools such as ReS, LSF, and SLURM.
• HPC farm systems, HPC MPP clustered systems, Front End servers of Special Purpose devices (SPDs) IBM or HP Blade servers with FC/SAS/Network back end.
• Multi-vendor filesystems such as XFS, GPFS and Lustre.
• Pre-Factory testing, Factory testing, System integration and Acceptance testing during the purchase process of the HPS systems.
• Configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced level troubleshooting and support of high performance filesystems 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.

Qualifications

• Accepted professional certifications include: Valid RHCSA or higher Red Hat certification; Valid VMWare certification; IAT Level 2 Certification Required.
• This Position requires an appropriate active Security Clearance and Polygraph.
• HPC TECHNICAL EXPERT shall have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, and have at least eight (8) years in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise. Or the individual shall have five (5) years of full lime computer science work that can substitute for the Bachelor's degree, and have at least eight years in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise. A Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field may substitute for two (2) years experience. An industry recognized professional certification may substitute as one year experience.

Benefits and EEO Statement

Omega Enterprise Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.