TQUSI0363_5108 - HPC Expert with IaC Capabilities

Main Technologies part of High-Performance Computing environments includes:

•             Operating Systems: Linux – RedHat

•             Provisioning: Redhat Image Builder, Redhat satellite

•             Storage: GPFS from IBM

•             Internal Network: Infiniband

•             Workload balancer: Slurm,

•             Ansible, Python, CD/CI, Jenkins, Gitlab

•             Monitoring tools, Grafana, SNMP, LogicMonitor, Splunk

•             Ticketing tools ServiceNow and Jira.

Role responsabilities:

•             Service Request Management

•             Configuration and Troubleshooting activities

•             Automation: maintain and develop new code that help manage HPC environments as IaC.

•             Installation of new environments (hardware installation coordination, OS deployment, science applications stack deployment and configuration)

•             Decommissioning of old environments/systems.

•             Provide responsive and knowledgeable support for end-users and administrators.

•             Assist users with job scheduling, workload management, and resource allocation.

•             Assist customer with migrations, upgrades, configuration changes, etc…

•             Proposal and Implementation Management. Identifying new requirements, provide a detailed proposal outlining the implementation approach, plan, and associated charges.

•             Conduct training sessions and create documentation to enhance user proficiency with HPC systems

•             Maintain/improve monitoring features.

Soft skills:

•             Fluent and effective communication in English.

•             Adaptive to customer and service needs.

•             Experience in long-term and mid-term projects execution.

•             Team collaboration and leadership.

•             Strategic Thinking. Ability to analyze business needs and design solutions aligned with organizational goals.

•             Requirements Gathering. Identify customer pain points and translate them into system requirements.

•             Solution Design. Create end-to-end architectures or processes across multiple systems/modules.

•             Change Management. Plan and guide customer through technology and process change.

•             Stakeholder Management. Communicate with different technical teams.

•             Analytical and problem-solving ability. Propone and push for improvements.

•             Adaptability to customer needs and constrains.

•             Proactive, provide solutions to future problems.

•             Adaptive, the person will need to work in both, reactive (with SLAs) and project tasks. Simple tasks and complex tasks.

•             DevOps background and experience: automation (pipelines, GitLab, Ansible, IaC, CaaS (Kubernetes), Python, CI/CD...)