System Administrator HPC, Linux

Description

System Administrators (HPC) must provide High Performance Computing (HPC) services in the form of HPC enhanced sustainment capabilities to two geographically dispersed areas. These capabilities include:

• Multi-vendor HPC servers, HPC clusters, and SPD servers.
• Systems running Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE and custom vendor-specific operating systems, with high-speed shared storage (lustre and gpfs as examples), along with dedicated high-speed low latency network interconnects like Infiniband and Slingshot.
• High speed shared parallel storage utilizes LUSTRE to provide performant shared storage solutions between two or more HPCs in a data center. An Interconnect service integrates HPC systems with a dedicated high-speed network connecting several storage appliances to dedicated HPC LNETs. These appliances would be available to various HPCs to enhance capabilities.

The HPC Operations Team must implement and manage monitoring capability required to track the health, status, and performance of the entire system, including its subcomponents (environmental, compute, storage, networks and applications) using various COTS and GOTS toolsets such as Nagios, Splunk, Prometheus, etc.

System Administrators (HPC) support the HPC and ABS (ABUNDANT SHIELD high speed shared parallel storage) SRE teams and follow Government designated policies and procedures, including ticket tracking, change approvals, coding specifications, and adherence to processes associated with the Government designated (and deployed) base SRE tools.

Annapolis Junction, Maryland

TS/SCI – Polygraph Required

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems.
• Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems.
• Manage daily configuration and operation activities of IT systems.
• Assist users in accessing and using IT systems.
• Provide Tier 2 (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems.
• Support day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for client/server/storage/network devices and mobile devices.
• Escalate and communicate status to agency management and internal customers.
• Optimize system operations and resource utilization, and perform capacity analysis and planning.
• Have in-depth experience in troubleshooting IT systems.
• Provide detailed analysis and feedback for escalated tickets.
• Support the dispatch system and handle hardware problems during resolution.
• Configure and manage Linux, Unix, Windows (or other applicable) OS, install/load OS software, troubleshoot, maintain integrity of network components, and implement OS enhancements to improve reliability and performance.
• Support design of systems, mission architecture, and associated hardware.
• Understand system administration interdependencies within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Analyze and resolve complex problems associated with server hardware, applications and software integration.

B.S. in a technical discipline and 10 years’ experience as a System Administrator in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity or 15 years’ experience in lieu of a degree.

DoD 8570 IAT II level certification required.

$180k–$220k (Annually)*

* The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents.

We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications. Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.