System Administrator Job Ottawa area,Ontario Canada,IT/Tech

Location and Salary

Montreal Rd, Ottawa - Hybrid: 1-2 days onsite per week.

$40 - $60 per hour (based on experience).

Tasks HPC Administrator Tasks

Maintain an HPC cluster (hardware, image management, local networking, scheduler, backups).
Troubleshoot the environment when an incident occurs to ensure a quick return to normal operations.

HPC Analyst Tasks

Meet with scientists and evaluate their requirements for HPC support.
Develop a task plan to meet scientists' needs and consult the technical authority for approval.
Application builds and installs, runtime troubleshooting (GNU, Intel, Fortran, Nvidia).
Support for open‑source and commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) software, including Python and Anaconda installs.
Bash scripts, build/make tools, Easy Build, and Spack.
MPI implementations (MPICH, OpenMPI, Intel

MPI, HPMPI).
Assist with in‑house developed applications (compilation and runtime).

Other General Tasks

Operating system management (patching schedule, reliability for Linux distributions).
Accounts (creation, deletion).
Configuration via Git, MS Dev Ops, Ansible Playbooks.
RPM/DEB packages.
Environment modules.
Thin Linc troubleshooting.

Troubleshoot & Hardware

Troubleshooting jobs on schedulers (PBS Pro/Torque, SLURM, SGE).
Ensure reliable CUDA installs, troubleshoot GPU failures and other CUDA software/driver issues.
Hardware support (memory upgrades, storage arrays, power and network cabling, ILO).

Documentation

Document each process for every task to ensure enterprise knowledge continuity.

Mandatory M1 High Performance Computing Experience

The bidder must demonstrate that the proposed resource has five (5) years’ experiences within the last ten (10) years in administrating HPC (High Performance Computing) systems and performing HPC analyst tasks, as per Statement of Work Section 3.1 Tasks – HPC Administrator Tasks.

The bidder must demonstrate via project description and must provide the following for each project:

Organization for which the work was performed;

Name of the Project(s) and/or Reference number;

Duration of work (start and end dates in MM/YY format);

Roles and responsibilities;

Tasks performed demonstrating the relevant experience.

To substantiate this experience, the Bidder must provide the following details for each relevant project:

A Short Project Description with scope, tasks, and deliverables.

Organization for which the work was performed.

Contract number, Reference number or Project Title.

Duration of Work (start and end dates in MM/YY format).

Roles, responsibilities and detailed tasks of the proposed resource(s) demonstrating the relevant experience.

Project experience must have been completed or ongoing.

Project Authority/Technical Authority name and title from the Organization which the work was performed.

Contact information (email address and phone number) for Project Authority/Technical Authority from the Organization which the work was performed.

Can be omitted when there is a specific criterion for references only.

M2 References

The Bidder must provide reference(s) for two (2) distinct HPC system administration projects or HPC analyst projects on which the proposed resource has worked for more than twelve (12) months. Each reference provided must have been in a role of supervision of the proposed resource.