Systems Engineer Principal; Hpc​/Ai System Administrator, Storage Engineer, Monitoring Expert, S

Req : RQ210996

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other

Required:

None

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Skills:

Complex Systems, High Performance Computing (HPC), Operations Management, System Performance, Systems Management

Experience:

8+ years of related experience

US Citizenship

Required:

Yes

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Principal High Performance Computing (HPC) and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

As a Systems Engineer Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS). You will play a crucial role in supporting the full lifecycle sustainment and operational availability of leading edge High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters that are the key elements of the Weather & Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS) used 24/7 by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO).

• Lead/Manage/Support the day-day operations, sustainment, HPC services delivery, and incremental enhancements of two, geographically separated HPC clusters that are GDIT contractor owned and contractor operated (COCO) and used exclusively for WCOSS. This position will be essential in maintaining complex HPC service availability and delivery for intricate customer workload processing and output specifically aligned to forecasting and predictions from the Global Forecast System (GFS) and supporting models.
• Collaborate with the GDIT WCOSS team as a senior-level HPC functional expert addressing intricate and multifaceted HPC challenges by providing innovative ideas, solutions, and resolution for customer requests, issues, and improvement efficiencies on a continuous basis.
• Drive and prioritize resource utilization towards continuously improving customer satisfaction with GDIT's HPC service delivery and exceeding the contract service level metrics of uptime, availability, performance, stability, and on-time product delivery.
• Utilize past experience, team collaboration, system management and troubleshooting applications, and ingenuity to support customer operations while working on systems that range in capacity from + nodes and 100's of PB storage per system.

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Systems Engineer Principal must have:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Experience: 8+ years of related experience
• Technical skills: Highly proficient with Linux (Rocky
  
  OS, SLES, etc), scripting in Python, Perl, or Bash, networking concepts and technology such as Ethernet, Infini Band and Slingshot, TCP/IP networking, basic routing, and network services, programming in Python, C/C++, or Fortran, administrating PBSpro, SLURM or other batch systems in an HPC cluster, and system performance monitoring and tuning in an HPC cluster environment (e.g., Open search, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Security clearance level: must complete a satisfactory background investigation
• US citizenship required
• Role requirements: expected to perform as individual SME contributor, functional lead, or project/task leader responsible for work product delivery. Extensive experience in troubleshooting, diagnosing and repairing hardware failures to component level on servers; coordinating with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems. Minimal travel required for onsite work, team collaboration, training, and customer interaction.

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

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• Rewards:
  Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Flexibility:
  Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home as…