Senior Systems Engineer - Linux HPC Environments

Randstad Professionals is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer - HPC environment for their client in Basel, Switzerland.

Short Description:

Planning, procuring or commissioning, testing and approving platforms (hardware and software) for the operation of IT systems. Defining the operating requirements.

Main Tasks:

- Analyzing new or changed requirements on feasibility, complexity and impact to existing/planned systems, standards and guidelines (reqirement engineering)
- Specifying the system architecture, selection of hardware, network, controlling components and system software, defining the necessary technical resources, investigate alternatives and feasibility
- Developing or choosing the appropriate methods, techniques, standards and tools for the assembly and operation of the systems
- Planning, evaluating, migrating, developing/implenting, configuring, testing and implementing of systems (hardware, network, control, software)
- Analyzing incidents and errors, applying and monitoring actions for correction
- Defining of benchmark figures and escalation procedures for defining service levels and to put the systems into operation

Requirements:

- The task will be to extend several medium sized HPC ENVIRONMENTS in U.S.A. and Switzerland to SLURM
- Thorough knowledge with SLURM for the design and implementation of a hetrogeneous and distributed SLURM environemnt and the migration of scientific applications from bioinformatics, chemistry and statistics to SLURM
- Thorough knowledge in LINUX: REDHAT 5, REDHAT 6, CENTOS 6, CENTOS 7, SPACEWALK, SATELLITE AND KICKSTART
- Experience with configuration management: puppet preferred
- Experience with the profiling and optimization of scientific HPC applications
- Experience with the management of parallel file systems