System Engineer

Samsung; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to join their HPC Grid Systems team in Austin, Texas. The role involves designing and maintaining the next generation HPC Compute Grid, focusing on low-power mobile chip design. Responsibilities include automating processes, improving system monitoring, and executing system changes.

Ideal candidates possess deep expertise in Linux systems, scripting skills, and a strong background in network administration. A minimum of an associate’s degree and 5 years of experience are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or administration.
• Extensive knowledge of Linux production systems.
• Hands-on experience with advanced configuration tools.

Responsibilities

• Automate and improve existing deployment processes.
• Implement system monitoring and performance solutions.
• Execute large-scale system changes using advanced technologies.

Skills

Linux system administration

Configuration automation tools (CFEngine, Chef, Puppet)

Scripting languages (Bash, Perl, Python)

Networking concepts and practices

Virtualization tools (VMWare)

Performance analysis tools

Education

Associate’s Degree (Bachelor’s Preferred)

Tools

Linux operating systems

git

Isilon NFS file systems

Job description

Job Description

As a Sr. Systems Engineer on the HPC Grid Systems infrastructure team, you will be working on designing and maintaining the next generation HPC Compute Grid for Samsung’s low‑power mobile chip design EDA engineering team. Primary responsibilities include defining and refining deployment and provisioning processes, designing and implementing performance monitoring, instrumentation and metrics gathering solutions, end‑to‑end system level testing, evaluating new technologies and providing stability and refinement throughout the entire compute stack.

Responsibilities

• Automating and improving existing processes
• Improving and refining system and service monitoring
• Executing large‑scale system changes using the latest technologies
• Hands‑on server/hardware debugging and problem remediation
• Implementing solutions to problems of diverse scope in specific areas, including data analysis to identify root cause and contributing factors.
• Improving and refining server OS deployments and provisioning processes
• Core refresh, expansion planning and implementation projects
• Documentation, service management, service improvement, service delivery
• Reviewing, improving, and generating documentation for multiple functional areas

Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree required (Bachelor’s Preferred)
• 5+ years of experience
• Extensive knowledge of building, configuring, and administering production Linux computer systems
• Experience programming in Bash, Perl, Python, or similar scripting languages
• Hands‑on experience with CFEngine, Cobbler, PXE, Kickstart, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or similar configuration and automation tools and practices
• Advanced knowledge of networking concepts and practices
• Expert skills with most Linux operating system commands and utilities
• Linux storage administration experience including file systems, LVM and RAID adapters
• Virtualization environments and tools such as VMWare, vCenter, vCenter Orchestrator
• Solid understanding of automated deployments
• Strong understanding of networking technologies (routing, switching, firewalls, iptables, etc)
• Experience with source code management tools (git)
• Experience with high speed interconnects (InfiniBand, 10GigE, 40GigE)
• Experience with scale‑out/scale‑up NFS file systems; specifically Isilon S, X, NL, HD
• Hands‑on experience with performance analysis tools, benchmarks and applications
• Proficient software skills for light programming and scripting, operating system administration, and hardware administration.
• Deep expertise with Linux operating systems including operations in a large scale production environment.
• Deep experience with system and application monitoring, software distribution, patching and maintenance in a Linux environment

Additional Information

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