Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

Analysis Group is one of the largest international economics consulting firms, with more than 1,500 professionals across 15 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1981, we have provided expertise in economics, finance, health care analytics, and strategy to top law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, and government agencies worldwide. Our internal experts, together with our network of affiliated experts from academia, industry, and government, offer our clients exceptional breadth and depth of expertise.

The role is responsible for the operation and maintenance of a Linux clustered computing environment, the Linux operating system, and general infrastructure activities. The administrator ensures that all systems are operating efficiently, devices are current, monitors, documents and reports on system operation, including change management and performance statistics.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

• Maintain, tune and manage analytical computing environment for statisticians
• Optimize systems and infrastructure performance with parallelization technologies
• Experience with the design, implementation and management of security best practices for a HPC environment, including threat monitoring, advanced log monitoring, ransomware protection and DLP techniques.
• Manage access authentication including PAM, LDAP integration and single sign-on
• Design and develop scripts for system administration, automating tasks, monitoring and usage reporting
• Troubleshoots, isolates and resolves application, systems and other technical problems (hardware, software, network)
• Develops and implements secure backup and recovery programs
• Researches, deploys and manages general infrastructure, including development of policies and procedures
• Migrates data from heterogeneous environments to Linux or cloud
• Monitor performance, troubleshoot problem areas and provide statistics and reports
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, processes, change management, inventory and service records
• Ensure continuous network connectivity of all equipment
• Conduct research and report on products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the technology industry
• 24x7 On-call rotation, troubleshoot/resolve remotely or onsite as necessary

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required. Degree in computer science or electrical engineering preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of substantive relevant experience required
• An ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience as a Hands-on Linux Systems Administrator in a research or production setting
• Experience managing SAS grid, Python, R and Stata environments
• Experience with SLURM is helpful
• Experience with Bright Cluster Manager is highly desired
• Experience with Ansible is highly desired
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure) is highly desired
• Proficiency with remote access technologies and tools such as RDP, SSH and emulation software
• Experience with integrating Linux in a Microsoft Windows client environment
• Experience with Clusters and Cluster File Systems using technologies such as GPFS, BeeGFS or GFS2 or other clustered file systems
• Experience with TCP/IP troubleshooting, including UDP and multicast
• Experience with interpreted or scripting language (Perl, Python, Bash)
• Experience with TSM and Git is highly desired
• Experience with automating OS and application installations is highly desired
• Technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards
• Excellent hardware troubleshooting experience
• Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Strong customer service orientation
• Experience working in a collaborative environment
• An inclusive and growth-oriented mindset, strong interpersonal skills, and an ability to work across functions.
• To the extent permitted by applicable law, eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the United States, without sponsorship or restriction, now and in the future.

Analysis Group embraces equal opportunity. We are committed to building teams that bring a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as we believe that a strong and inclusive workforce directly supports our goal of providing the highest-quality work. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other class protected under applicable federal, state, or local law, and we encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

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