High-Performance Computing (HPC) Application Support Engineer

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Job Description:

Job Description

The C4ISR Solutions, Maritime Systems Division, has an immediate opening for a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Application Support Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills and experience in the development and integration of a critical HPC environment. As the HPC Application Support Engineer, you will work alongside our government customer ensuring the successful delivery of this vital capability.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage, deploy, and support applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Work with users to customize applications and development environments to specification
• Work with the team to define and implement best practices
• Monitor internally developed applications for impact to system performance and resource
• utilization
• Tune applications to optimize performance and reliability of services across the Highperformance Computing (HPC) ecosystem
• Diagnose application problems quickly and effectively
• Automate administration procedures for routine and complex tasks
• Provide backup HPC system administration support
• Coordinate with vendors to resolve software problems

Basic Qualifications

• Requires BS and 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience and and a minimum of 2 years of experience in Linux/UNIX Systems Administration.
• Experience supporting internally developed applications in C, C++, Java, and Python
• An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance from the Department of
• Defense.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team
• 5 years of experience supporting HPC applications and development environments on RHEL
• Certifications: Security+, RHCSA or RHCE
• Experience troubleshooting application execution through resource managers such as PBS Pro and Slurm
• Experience with utilities such as Git, Bitbucket, Confluence
• An understanding of code review, compilers, and debugging tools including Intel Parallel Studio,
• GCC, GDB, TotalView
• Experience supporting applications based on CUDA, OpenCL, OpenMPI, OpenMP, IntelMPI
• Experience using tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, and SNMP to monitor systems, metrics, and create dashboards
• Ability to develop and maintain programs and scripts that aid in the operation and automation of administrative tasks and workflows using Bash and Python
• Ability to identify requirements and to define, plan, and implement requisite solutions
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize tasks, and complete assigned projects with minimal supervision

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