When not at a customer site, the incumbent will work from his/her home office participating and contributing to best practices, IP development, and/or other related HPC, Hadoop, and Openstack related initiatives. The position requires up to 75% travel to customer sites nationally.
The prospective candidate should possess experience with HPC, big data, and cloud service delivery according to field guides, Solution Integration Documents, and/or custom statements of work. Primary experience should be within the HPC domain, specifically with Head & Compute node clusters, InfiniBand Networks, 10 GbE Networks, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Proficiency, Power & Cooling, GPU Clusters, and related HPC technologies, tools and software products. Integration and testing of varied applications, performance testing and tuning of HPC including ability to utilize various hardware, software solutions to maximize application specific performance, benchmarking performance of cluster using HPL, integration and configuration of job schedulers.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the integration of hardware and software for HPC, big data, and cloud solutions.
- Provide leadership to supervise junior technicians at customer locations to ensure quality, efficiency and compliance with deployment procedures and installation guides.
- Interface directly with customer site contacts, Dell project managers, and other key stakeholders.
- Identify potential risk/resolution approaches for targeted HPC, big data, and cloud deployments.
- Provide pre-sales scoping assistance and SOW reviews as needed
- Provide solution integration planning as needed
- Contribute to improving delivery quality and optimization through best practices and IP development
- Identify corrective actions to drive resolutions for systemic issues
- Stay up-to-date with current technology trends
- Escalate break/fix troubleshooting and issue resolution.
Skills Required:
- CentOS, Scientific Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
- Experience with schedulers including SGE, PBS Pro, Moab, and Torque/Maui
- Networking expertise including Cisco, PowerConnect, Force 10, and Arista
- InfiniBand expertise including Mellanox and QLogic (Intel)
- Experience with cluster management software including Bright Cluster Manager (BCM), Rocks, and xCAT
- Familiarity with Big Data and Cloud platforms including Hadoop and OpenStack
- Storage experience including PowerVault, DDN, GPFS, and Lustre
- Undergraduate degree and 6+ years, or Graduate Degree and 4+ years of relevant experience to include Linux expertise such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Certification Requirements:
- Certifications such as RHCE/RHCSA, CCNA, CCNP, and Network+ certifications
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