IT Administrator - HPC
na Sidra Medical and Research Center
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Publicado em January 9, 2024
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JOB SUMMARY The IT Administrator - HPC within the Biomedical Informatics Division is responsible for the installation, configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting of the HPC infrastructure (Linux servers in more than 1 PB environment with over 1000 processing cores) and the associated systems software. He/ She is also responsible for maintaining the integrity and the stability of the HPC. The administrator provides technical expertise for the use of the HPC systems and applications. He/ she works with users at SIDRA to solve specific computational problems and help researchers to efficiently utilize HPC resources. KEY ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Installs software on HPC systems, writes test scripts, troubleshoots application problems and runs benchmarks to evaluate the performance of algorithms on different configurations.
- Assists in monitoring the performance and stability of the HPC resources.
- Oversees the health, compliance and performance of various HPC systems.
- Contributes to the design and configuration of HPC systems in response to the business requirements.
- Leads projects related to the deployment of new systems (hardware and software), the upgrade of existing systems, and the integration among various systems.
- Performs Disk Management and Data Backup.
- Provides monthly reports on the performance and utilization of the HPC systems to their management.
- Installs software & manages file systems, and troubleshoots alerts from monitoring tools.
- Performs programming/scripting to automate some of the operational functions.
- Help researchers evaluate available software and hardware.
- Assist researchers with debugging problems that arise when compiling or using HPC resources or linking to HPC-specific libraries (for example, C, C++, Matlab, Perl, R, openmp, mpi, cuda, pthreads, etc.
- Assists researchers in optimizing or parallelizing existing applications.
- Adheres to Sidra’s standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies
- Adheres to and promotes Sidra’s Values
- 4+ Years technical systems administration experience; maintaining computer systems infrastructure and its operation, at least 3 of which is in high performance and cluster computing for scientific applications
- Experience in Unix operating systems( Level 2 support or higher)
- Experience in HPC software development and architecture
- Experience virtualization concept and technology
- A good understanding of computer network infrastructure
- Database awareness
- Understanding of traffic classification and prioritization
- Understanding of network security
- Experience building, installing, and configuring a variety of open-source Linux software packages, especially with complex dependencies
- Experience setting up and maintaining a clustered file system such as GPFS or others.
- Experience setting up and maintaining scientific computing clusters and their associated scheduling systems, such as SGE, or PBS
- Previous experience working in Bioinformatics/NGS environment
- Unix / Linux Certified
- VMware/Citrix
- PMP
- High level of Technical skills related to systems administration and infrastructure of HPCs
- Extensive experience and skill managing Unix/Linux operating systems in a large-scale system environment
- Shell scripting experience and ability
- Solid understanding of networked computing environment concepts
- Demonstrated ability in managing file systems and storage in an HPC environment
- Experience with batch schedulers (particularly PBS or MOAB)
- Ability to understand the business requirements of the users and translate it into technical requirements
- Ability to manage vendor relationship
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to assess the criticality and urgency of users requirements and prioritize them properly
- Ability to prepare reports on problems root cause or technology evaluation
- Ability to develop and present
- technical information in a format that is understood by non-technical individuals
- Excellent written and interpersonal communications skills and self-motivation are essential.
- Proven ability to work well individually and in a team environment and to produce high-quality work
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- C-Programming and porting experience
- Substantial experience with parallel programming environments (MPI, OpenMP, etc.)
- Demonstrated competency with scientific programming languages
- Experience in application profiling and optimization using performance tools on HPC systems
- Knowledgeable about data and security issues relating to clinical information for research.
- Previous experience
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