HPC Systems Engineer

Company:
Exxon Mobil Global Services Company

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, but not limited to the following: general troubleshooting of any issues that may arise, monitoring overall system health, performing system maintenance tasks, and evaluating new hardware/system software.

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)
• Experience in HPC technologies 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 production environments
• Experience in implementing changes and security controls in a global framework.
• Understanding of data center operations fundamentals in networking, cooling, and power
• Knowledge and experience with installing/compiling vendor and open‑source software
• Knowledge and experience with application/infrastructure deployment and support in one or more of the major cloud environments

• Pension Plan:
  Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
• Savings Plan:
  You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
• Workplace Flexibility:
  We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad‑hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer‑term programs such as leaves of absence and part‑time work.
• Comprehensiv…