Sr. Linux System Administrator (HPC/Dev Ops)
South San Francisco, CA

Job Description

As part of the Global Operations team we are looking for an infrastructure engineer based in South San Francisco for our High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. You will manage agile computing environments in several locations to support our Research Partners on supporting the relevant infrastructure components to achieve agility and performance. This includes installing, configuring, administering, and fine-tuning our High Performance Computing environment and related infrastructure components across the organization in a timely, cost-effective and efficient manner.

Responsibilities:

* Assist on the design of the new HPC infrastructure and evolution of the current environments.


* Ensures installation, configuration and operation of the environments to achieve the performance and agility of the various applications supported (in the range of several hundreds).


* Contributes to the concept, planning and execution of projects.



Who you are

You're someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience


* Must have Linux Administration and scripting experience (other programming language a plus)


* Senior level technical operational skills, such as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis


* 7+ years of Linux System Administration and work related experience


* 3 + years of experience and knowledge of HPC preferred


* DevOps experience a plus (Puppet, Jenkins)


* Excellent customer orientation and delivery focus with good end user perspective


* GPFS basics


* Configuration management (GIT/Stash, Puppet, and basic Bright knowledge)


* Experience working in a fast changing environments where solutions are deployed and retired at high pace


* Demonstrated problem solving skills


* Good communication and interpersonal skills


* Ability to work effectively alone or within a team, including virtual teams


* Proactivity, with a clear ability to think beyond boundaries, take controlled risks and assume responsibilities


* Understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts, preferred


* Active open source contributor


* Working experience in pharmaceutical or scientific/research sector is a plus


* Experience working in a global organization, working in an international and multicultural environment considered a plus



Basic knowledge in:

* Dockers: Mesos/Marathon, DC-OS


* Monitoring: Ganglia, Grafana, ELK, Influxdb


* Provisioning: Katello/ Foreman, Jenkins


* Network: Mellanox



Advanced knowledge/consideration:

* More than 5 years of HPC experience (High Performance Computing)


* Monitoring: Ganglia, Grafana, ELK, Influxdb


* Provisioning: Katello/ Foreman, Jenkins:


* Network: Mellanox


* Dockers: Mesos/Marathon, DC-OS