High Performance Computing Engineer II - OIT

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Description

OIT is looking for a highly motivated team member to help support Emory’s innovative, brand-new hybrid HPC computing platform and service. This position will work with a variety of technical teams and with Emory faculty to help engineer well-designed high performance computing solutions that advance knowledge discovery, tackle challenging scientific problems, accelerate business processes, and provide the basis for education and training in cutting-edge technology. This new position aligns with Emory’s strategic direction to provide both cloud and on-premises IT infrastructure to meet the growing computing and analysis needs of its research and teaching community, particularly in the multi-disciplinary field of AI and its applications to many domains of scientific inquiry.

As part of the Emory Office of Information Technology, this role will join a new hybrid HPC support team and be responsible for:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintaining high performance computing infrastructure on the cloud and on premise
• Supporting hybrid cloud HPC mechanisms
• Actively seeking to understand the latest AI research computing requirements and helping to plan infrastructure upgrades to keep up with evolving trends
• Maintaining collaborative relationships with Emory faculty, seeking to understand their needs and offer efficient solutions
• Providing training, assistance in scripting, software installation services, technical troubleshooting services to end-users
• Collaborating with a variety of technical teams, such as Information Security, Cloud Engineering, distributed IT support units, Product Management and Project Management units
• Contributing to the documentation of use cases, reusable patterns and technical guidelines.
• Ensuring quality outcomes through best practices in security, infrastructure as code, streamlined release processes, thorough testing and validation, and striving towards taking those extra steps to ensure a quality product.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, engineering, or a related field OR High School Diploma and equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• 2+ years of experience in Linux administration
• 1+ years of HPC cluster user support, planning and management experience
• 1+ years of experience with scripting in Python and Bash
• 1+ year of experience in working with Cloud Infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services or Azure

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Good understanding of the various AWS / Azure products and their applications
• Knowledge of the Slurm cluster management software
• Experience with specialized computing, like GPU, parallelization, and DevOps aspects such as containers and automation
• Experience working within an academic, research, healthcare or scientific institution.
• Experience working with standard practices in project management (PMI), service management (ITIL), and systems development lifecycle
• Strong and precise communications skills and the ability to create and foster positive and creative relationships with faculty, staff, and students
• Exposure to scientific data types, bioinformatics packages, big data analysis methods or machine learning algorithms.

NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University location as needed and at times, on short notice.  Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.

Additional Details

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