Compute; HPC Systems Administrator

High Performance Compute (HPC) Systems Administrator

At Neural Solutions, we believe in investing in our team's development to build an innovative environment. This focus on growth delivers high-quality, advanced solutions to our clients.

You will build and maintain HPC systems to enable mission success, communicating with stakeholders to ensure services meet current and future needs.

• Support a large client-server IT enterprise in installation, configuration, and networking of Linux and Windows platforms.
• Oversee servers running Red Hat, CentOS, Solaris X64, SUSE, virtual appliances, with directly attached and FC SAN storage.
• Troubleshoot PXE and DHCP boot processes.
• Manage Microsoft Exchange policy, mailbox management, enterprise-level multi‑site design and architecture.
• Provide Tier 3 infrastructure services such as DNS, NIS, Active Directory, Centrify, Zenoss, Site Scope, HP Open View, HP One View, HPSA, HPSE, SPLUNK, Sendmail, Exchange, NetQoS, Infoblox, Nagios, HP Cluster Management.
• Install, configure, tune, and troubleshoot multi‑vendor servers running numerous COTS, open source and in‑house applications.

• TS/SCI clearance with appropriate polygraph.
• Ability to work onsite 100 % of the time.
• Candidate must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and have ten (10) years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server IT enterprise.
• Alternatively, five (5) years of full‑time computer science work that substitutes for the Bachelor’s Degree, and ten (10) years of experience in system administration and support of a large client‑server IT enterprise.
• Industry‑recognized professional certification may substitute for one year of experience. IAT Level II Certification Required.
• Experience with the following:
• Red Hat, CentOS, Solaris X64, SUSE, virtual appliances, directly attached and FC SAN storage.
• Large SPU, memory SMP systems and clusters with many cores.
• Enterprise client‑server configurations (Group Policy, Centrify, DNS, LDAP).
• Bash, Perl, and Linux scripting.
• Linux Logical Volume Management (LVM).
• Distributed file systems.
• Configuration management tools.
• Advanced Red Hat/CentOS and Windows OS (including Group Policy).
• Microsoft Exchange policy, mailbox management, enterprise‑level multi‑site design and architecture.
• Enterprise Active Directory/Centrify zone management (creation, update, RBAC).
• Tier 3 infrastructure support for services such as DNS, NIS, Active Directory, Centrify, Zenoss, Site Scope, HP Open View, HP One View, HPSA, HPSE, SPLUNK, Sendmail, Exchange, NetQoS, Infoblox, Nagios, HP Cluster Management.
• Thin‑client solutions based on virtual bridges and Centrix, VPN.
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  Machine NX Virtual Desktop management.
• Enterprise virtualization products: VMWare, vSphere, vCenter, vRealize Automation, vSAN.
• vSwitch, Distributed Switch, Console management.
• Open Shift, Docker, Kubernetes.

200 000 – 245 000 USD per year (Annapolis Junction, MD)