• Full Operational Management: Perform day-to-day operations and management of large-scale, supercomputing clusters to meet the required availability, and performance, including, but not limited to, integration, provisioning, software stack deployment, updates, hardware and software maintenance, and decommissioning.
• High-Performance Storage Administration: Deploy, tune, configure, maintain, and operate massive parallel file systems.
• Workload and Schedule Management: Manage, configure, optimize, and troubleshoot cluster management and job scheduling software.
• Security, Patches, and Compliance: Proactively implement security updates, coordinate systematic Operating System kernel patches, and mitigate vulnerabilities across computing and storage environments without compromising system stability.
• Preventative and Corrective Maintenance: Coordinate vendor-supported maintenance schedules, conduct hardware and software diagnostics, and participate in rapid-response resolution during service degradations or system blackouts.
• User Support: Provide specialized, tiered technical assistance ranging from software provisioning and workflow optimization to advanced, expert-level troubleshooting for complex research challenges.
• GPU System Administration: Provision, configure, and maintain GPU-accelerated computing systems, including driver management, library configuration, and performance optimization for workload acceleration.

Required Technical Skills and Qualifications:

• Expert Linux System Administration: Advanced, production-level expertise in enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, or Ubuntu Server), incorporating expert-level command-line proficiency, kernel tuning, and automated shell scripting (Bash, Python).
• Parallel File Systems Architecture: Hands-on experience in the design, deployment, scaling, and/or optimization of high-performance file systems. Experience in deploying, configuring, and operating IBM Spectrum Scale and/or Lustre.
• Scheduling Proficiency: Working familiarity with HPC resource management, including experience with Slurm.
• Systems Security Alignment: Robust foundation in core security frameworks, containing firewalls, identity management (LDAP/Active Directory), access control lists (ACLs), SSH hardening, and continuous patch management cycles.
• Agile Methodologies: Experience operating within modern Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), leveraging iterative workflows, participating in sprint reviews, and utilizing collaborative project boards (Jira, Gitlab) to track milestones.
• GPU Accelerator Management: Proficiency in configuring and maintaining GPU-accelerated computing environments, including driver installation/management, CUDA or similar library configuration, and performance tuning for accelerated workloads.
• A BS degree and 7+ years’ experience in relevant work areas.
• US Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 1 or Tier 2 Investigation through NASA.