Senior Network and Computer Systems Administrator

Job location: Aberdeen, MD or Dayton, OH (for remote candidates PLEASE read below) Can be remote if the candidate has easy access (1 hour or less drive time) to a SDREN connection.
For example, the candidate can live within an hour drive to the Army Research Laboratory DSRC, Aberdeen Maryland; Air Force Research Laboratory DSRC, Dayton, OH; or the Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS.
Compensation: $63.
35 per hour Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Matching 401k, Life, Tuition Assistance, 2 weeks PTO first year, 3 weeks year 2+, and 11 company paid holidays.
Education / Certifications: High School and 9 years or more experience.
Associate degree and 7 years or more experience.
Bachelors and 5 years or more experience.
Masters and 3 years or more experience.
PhD or JD and 0 years or more experience.
Experience: Must have at a minimum Secret clearance to start.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Linux variants operating systems (OS) (i.
e.
, Linux+ or willing to obtain within 3 months of employment) Preferred Experience: InfiniBand (IB), Intel Omni-Path interconnects.
Portable Batch System (PBS), Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), or IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility (LSF) schedulers.
Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, or ARM CPUs.
Nvidia graphic processing units (GPU)s ITIL Foundations Overview: We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer/Developer to join the Navy DSRC team supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DoD HPCMP).
Flexibility in approach to finding solutions is essential, as well as the ability to understand and act on the customer needs and priorities and learn new technologies quickly.
Occasional off-hours activity will be required to perform updates and take part in service restoration efforts.
RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES: Complies with software requirements and requests from the customer (government) regarding workload management, including validation, scheduling policies, and post-run processing (mainly accounting).
Performs installation, testing and support for COTS, GOTS, and open-source software on high performance computing platforms as well as local infrastructure systems (when applicable) for the Navy DSRC.
Provides hands-on support and administration of Workload Management Batch Job Schedulers such as Altair PBS Pro, SchedMD SLURM, with a potential to expand to other products.
Correctly forecast and express resource limitations and provide recommendations for increasing the efficiency of our resources through proper scheduling and load balancing techniques.
Provide after-hours support and respond to emergency situations and resolve problems.
Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.
Responsible for the successful design, support, and integration of HPC clusters (computation, storage and infrastructure), software, scheduling, and research applications in order to meet the computational needs of DoD scientists.
Participates in the installation, integration, acceptance testing, and on-going maintenance of our HPC systems and software environment.
Installing, upgrading, and supporting Batch Job Schedulers.
Maintain and/or develop software code that is used to report Job Accounting on HPC systems to the HPCMP.
Fielding and processing issues from peers, users, or management.
(would include articulating issues to third-party services and working through a problem through text.
) Enhancement and automation of managed software - Develop, install, and maintain requested software.
This may extend beyond workload management software, including file/data profiling (archive scraping), text transposing/linters, and interactive processing scripts.
Under the High-Performance Computing Modernization Program Integrated Technical Services Contract II (HITS-U II) directly supports the DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) mission.
We deliver world-class commercial, high-end, high-performance computational capabilities to the Department of Defense's (DoD’s) Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) community at the DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) A successful candidate should be customer service oriented, attentive to detail, self-motivated and work well in teams.
Flexibility in approach to finding solutions, the ability to understand and act on the customer needs and priorities and learn new technologies quickly.
You will also need to be willing to respond to occasional off-hours outages and take part in subsequent service restoration efforts.
The selected system administrator will work with a team of engineers to review and define configurations, create automation scripts to deploy and configure network assets, review, and deploy software applications, and provide support for testing, demonstration, and technical interchange meetings to include troubleshooting, patching, hardening, and configuration management.