Senior Systems Administrator (HPC Lab Integration & Development) with Security Clearance

Fuse Engineering; Maryland; On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuse Engineering is seeking a System Administrator to provide network management and systems administration for the customer’s High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure and HPC development environment.

In this role you will work across Linux/Windows environments, develop scripts in Bash and Python, manage storage and virtualization, and ensure security and compliance while troubleshooting issues and delivering reports.

Qualifications

• Experience administering Linux and Windows environments.
• Experience developing scripts using Bash and Python.
• Experience performing system administration including installation, configuration, and support of software, packages, and libraries.
• Experience with clustered network appliances and FC SAN storage.
• Hands-on troubleshooting and issue resolution with reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provide network management and systems administration for the customer’s HPC infrastructure and development environment.
• Maintain and support the HPC environment, including storage, networks, and virtualization aspects.
• Troubleshoot, interface with customers, track discrepancies, and generate reports.
• Leverage Splunk and Elastic Stack for monitoring and analysis.
• Implement IaC and automation using SaltStack and Ansible.

Skills

Linux CLI

Bash scripting

Python scripting

System administration

SAN storage

Troubleshooting

Splunk

Elastic Stack

Storage

Networking

Load balancing

Memory management

VMs

Firewalls

System monitoring

Security compliance

SSP accreditation

Infrastructure as Code

SaltStack

Ansible

Jira

Confluence

Hardware sanitization

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Task Description

The System Administrator shall be responsible for providing network management and systems administration to maintain the customer ’s High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure and HPC development environment

Task Required Skills

Experience using the Linix CLI

• Experience developing scripts using Bash/Python
• Experience performing System Administration including installation, configuration, and support of COTS/GOTS software, packages, and libraries in a Linux and Windows environment
• Experience with Network Appliance clustered servers and applicable software with direct attached FC San storage
• Experience with hands-on troubleshooting, customer interfacing, issue resolution, discrepancy tracking, and report generation
• Familiar with software frameworks used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data such as Splunk and Elastic Stack
• Experience with Linux configuration regarding Storage, Networking, Load Balancing, Memory Management, VMs, Firewalls, and System Monitoring
• Experience with corporate STE/STN security compliance policies, procedures, and tools
• Experience with corporate SSP accreditation processes
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) principles and automation tools such as SaltStack and Ansible

Task Desired Skills

Experience with the Atlassian Suite of Tools such as Jira and Confluence

• Experience with sanitization of hardware, firmware, and / or software removed from computing environment in accordance with USG policies and procedures