HPC Operations Engineer

Overview

• We are now looking for a HPC Operations Engineer to join our mission and continue improving our HPC infrastructure.
• A meaningful part of NVIDIA’s strength is our unique and advanced development tools and environments that enable our incredible pace of innovation.
• We are looking for architects to help us evolve the way our private compute cloud is architected and optimized.
• What you’ll be doing: Troubleshoot incoming support requests in a large-scale HPC environment.
• Contribute improvements to existing deployment automation, configuration management, observability, and operational monitoring and day to day operation through automation.
• Ensure compute servers are running an accurate Operating System and configuration.
• Address Complex Issues: Perform comprehensive issue resolution from bare metal to application level, ensuring system reliability and efficiency.
• Collaborate with specialist teams to drive issues to closure.
• Collaborate with domain experts to improve how our chip development process utilizes our infrastructure.
• Directly contribute to the overall quality and improve time to market for our next generation chips.
• What we need to see: BS in Computer Science or similar degree or equivalent experience 2+ years of experience Proficient in coordinating Centos/RHEL Linux distributions.
• Understating of container technologies like Docker.
• Proficiency in Python and UNIX scripting languages such as bash.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze sophisticated systems, identify bottlenecks, and implement scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work optimally with teams with varied strengths and individuals.
• Proven understanding of cluster configuration managements tools such as Ansible.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: Understanding of key Linux technologies such as NFS, automounter, LDAP, DNS, and TCP/IP networking in Red Hat Linux distribution flavors.
• Familiarity with job scheduler administration (e.g.
• IBM Spectrum LSF or SLURM) and experience building/ operating large scale compute infrastructure.
• Knowledge of the FlexLM license management system.
• Proficiency in Perl for maintaining legacy automation scripts.
• Familiarity with High-Speed Networking (InfiniBand, RDMA, RoCE etc.) and fast, distributed storage systems (Lustre, GPFS, etc.).