HPC Engineer

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

As a HPC Engineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following:

Utilize a wide variety of skills in system and network monitoring; large-scale systems administration; scripting and automation; security compliance; network distributed services; storage and backups; and hardware and software problem diagnosis and resolution.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot technical problems, often of a complex nature, associated with computer hardware and software interrelationships and dependencies.
• Conduct needs analysis, planning, and scheduling the installation of a wide variety of new or modified hardware/software.
• Develop functional and technical IT system requirements and specifications. Configure and optimize system tools and applications, to include job schedulers (Slurm and PBSPro) and system resources (GitLab, LUA/TCL modules, and system support applications).
• Create and brief technical presentations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides. Develop user facing documentation.

• DoD Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility
• Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and ten or more years of job related experience.
• Thorough knowledge of complex concepts, practices, and troubleshooting associated with HPC cluster systems design, installation, and maintenance.
• Advanced knowledge in distributed computing theory, parallel processing, applications, and associated infrastructure is required.
• Extensive experience with Linux/Unix systems including installation, configuration, networking, backups, updates and patching, data archiving, and system security. Functional knowledge of HPC middleware, and platform managers such as Bright Cluster Manager; employing job schedulers such as PBS, Slurm, Torque, etc.; and, optimizing job queues.
• Experience with HPC or large-scale distributed computing environments and technologies such as high-speed low-latency interconnects (e.g. InifiniBand), parallel file systems (e.g. Lustre), and virtualization environments and tools (e.g. VMWare).
• Experience developing Python/bash/Perl scripts and employing automation frameworks such as Ansible.
• General knowledge employing Docker containers and Kubernetes ecosystems.
• Working knowledge in one or more programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Fortran, etc.)
• Must be able and willing to travel to northern Virginia approximately 25% of the time