HPC Engineer

Responsibilities

Job title:

HPC Engineer

Sabre is seeking an HPC Data Storage Engineer to support a mission‑critical Department of Defense (DoD) program dedicated to high‑performance computing operations. As an HPC Engineer, you will design, optimize, and maintain advanced high‑performance computing environments that power large‑scale data processing, simulation, and research operations. Your contributions will directly enable advanced data‑intensive research efforts that are essential to national defense.

• Apply comprehensive knowledge of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems, comprising high‑speed, multi‑petabyte Lustre file systems, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers, CPU/GPU compute nodes, and high performance storage arrays, using Ethernet, fiber, Omni‑Path, and Infini Band interconnections.
• Provide functional and technical expertise in support of user‑developed software and technical advice and leadership to other technical staff.
• Utilize a wide variety of skills in system and network monitoring; large‑scale systems administration; scripting and automation; security compliance; network distributed services; storage and backups; and hardware and software problem diagnosis and resolution.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot technical problems, often of a complex nature, associated with computer hardware and software interrelationships and dependencies.
• Conduct needs analysis, planning, and scheduling the installation of a wide variety of new or modified hardware/software.
• Develop functional and technical IT system requirements and specifications. Configure and optimize system tools and applications, to include job schedulers (Slurm and PBSPro) and system resources (Git Lab, LUA/TCL modules, and system support applications).
• Create and brief technical presentations to technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides. Develop user‑facing documentation.

Location:

The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Arlington, VA
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• Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and ten or more years of job‑related experience.
• Thorough knowledge of complex concepts, practices, and troubleshooting associated with HPC cluster systems design, installation, and maintenance.
• Advanced knowledge in distributed computing theory, parallel processing, applications, and associated infrastructure is required.
• Extensive experience with Linux/Unix systems including installation, configuration, networking, backups, updates and patching, data archiving, and system security.
• Functional knowledge of HPC middleware and platform managers such as Bright Cluster Manager; employing job schedulers such as PBS, Slurm, Torque, etc.; and optimizing job queues.
• Experience with HPC or large‑scale distributed computing environments and technologies such as high‑speed low‑latency interconnects (e.g., Infini Band), parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre), and virtualization environments and tools (e.g., VMWare).
• Experience developing Python/bash/Perl scripts and employing automation frameworks such as Ansible.
• General knowledge employing Docker containers and Kubernetes ecosystems.
• Working knowledge in one or more programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Fortran, etc.).

• This position requires an active Top Secret DoD security clearance (U.S. Citizenship required).

At Sabre Systems, LLC, compensation is based on factors such as location, qualifications, experience, and contract‑specific requirements; however, final compensation will be determined by individual qualifications and applicable contract terms. The general salary range for this position is as follows: $90,000.00 – $.

We respect the unique perspectives that a diverse workforce of minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans brings not only to our company, but also to our customers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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