HPC Systems Engineer

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The HPC Systems Engineer role has the overall responsibility to work within a small team of highly skilled HPC specialists to provide a performant, reliable, and secure high-performance computing (HPC) environment. The HPC Systems Engineer will be involved in various aspects of designing and engineering our HPC system as well as be responsible for managing day-to-day operations and maintenance activities, including general troubleshooting of any issues that may arise, monitoring overall system health, performing system maintenance tasks, and evaluating new hardware and system software.

Location:

Spring, TX, USA

• Establish strategies for overall support of the systems portfolio (4 supercomputers and large parallel file systems across the domain)
• Evaluate new hardware and software and understand potential benefits/impacts it can have in the scientific computing and seismic imaging environments
• Perform software installations and upgrades, inclusive of operating system in world class HPC environment
• Monitor overall system performance and health and partner with 3rd parties on hardware support as needed
• Provide support for the management of data in the environment (140+ Petabytes of parallel file system)
• Advanced consulting with users to resolve problems and ensure they can effectively utilize the systems
• Interact with both business customers and technical teams that are globally distributed and within varied time zones
• Engaging with vendors for problem resolution of existing infrastructure and discussion of roadmaps and new technologies for evaluations
• Foster a supportive work environment and maintain open, productive interactions among team and across organizations
• Build and maintain cross-organizational contacts to facilitate execution of work

• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science or related degree area (e.g., Computer Engineering, Information Systems) or equivalent skills work experience.
• Excellent technical, analytical, and communication skills.
• A minimum of 10 years of hands‑on Linux experience (e.g., RHEL, CentOS) and production infrastructure support (e.g., networking, storage, monitoring, compute, installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, retirement).
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in HPC technologies (e.g., installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, retirement, problem resolution) such as parallel/distributed files systems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS), high speed interconnect fabrics (e.g., Infiniband, Omni‑Path), and HPC batch scheduling software suites (e.g., PBSPro, SLURM).
• Proficiency in technical writing and documentation of solutions.
• Solid understanding of data center operations fundamentals in networking, cooling, and power.
• Works well in a team environment.
• Self‑motivated.

• Strong IT skills in infrastructure and applications.
• Experience with supporting large scale…