System Administrator

Duration:   12 Months.

Industry: defense

Responsibilities

• Manage team’s compute environment including HPC

• Support design, deployment, and maintenance of customer compute architectures

• Manage corporate intranet policy and compliance implementations

• Support system administration of Windows/Linux computer systems

• Support capital planning and develop hardware refresh roadmap

Basic Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, or related degree

• 7+ years of experience in systems administration and support of client-server based IT architectures (professional certification may substitute as one year experience)

• Experience with RAID storage technologies

• Familiarity with automated approaches to configuring and maintaining systems

• Experience with network attached storage systems

• Experience with rack mounting hardware and wiring

• Must be capable of lifting equipment up to 50lbs

• Good organization skills; able to balance and prioritize daily tasks

• Takes ownership of results

• Strong communication skills

DESIRED SKILLS

• Extensive experience as a Linux administrator

• Extensive experience with Windows Server (AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy)

• Experience with parallel systems, parallel processing, parallel file systems

• Proficiency in shell scripting with languages such as Python, Perl, Korn, Bourne/Bash, Powershell

• Familiarity with High Performance Computing (HPC) environment and related technologies

• Familiarity with power and cooling requirements for server room equipment

• Experience with system hardening (DISA STIG)

• Experience with applying patches and building custom kernels as required to implement functionality or address security concerns.

• Experience with Infiniband or Omni-Path high speed fabrics, including subnet management, IPoIB and/or IPoOPA mechanisms, fabric topology and health monitoring and integration with MPI

• Experience with RDMA communications (InfiniBand and OmniPath).

Shift: Day