High Performance Computing Technical Expert

TECHNICAL EXPERT/FUNCTIONAL EXPERT for HPC 

In addition to the above qualifications, TECHNICAL EXPERT/FUNCTIONAL EXPERT FOR HPC must have the qualifications required by the relevant TTO: 

•Configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced level troubleshooting and support of high performance filesystems such as XFS, GPFS and Lustre 

•Advanced level troubleshooting and support of HPC farm systems and associated applications such as Nagios, xcat, failover software, and compilers 

Working knowledge of HPC MPP systems 

•Configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced level troubleshooting and support of distributed computing tools such as RES, LSF and SLURM. 

•Configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced level troubleshooting of RedHat and SuSe operating systems 

•Accepted professional certifications: 

• valid RHCSA or higher Red Hat certification 
• valid V M Ware certification 

Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph Clearance Required

Shall have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, and have at least eight (8) years in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise. Or the individual shall have five (5) years of full lime computer science work that can substitute for the Bachelor's degree, and have at least eight years in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise. A Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field may substitute for two (2) years experience. An industry recognized professional certification may substitute as one year experience.