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HPC Infrastructure Sys Admin

MQ Prime is a Virginia based small business who are experts in the world of Cyber Engineering and Software Development.  Built on decades of expertise, we support Commercial and Government clients, providing development, design and implementation of cutting-edge solutions.  Our personnel maintain support for cyber solutions throughout all of the Government and continue to develop capabilities to fill operational gaps.

MQ Prime offers a salary and benefits package that surpasses industry standards while also providing a varied and expanding portfolio of programs at multiple classification levels to enable employee growth. We want you to grow as we do. Come join us!

We are looking for a Jr. Sys Admin with hardware knowledge who wants to expand into the HPC mindset and environment.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.

  • Active TS clearance adjudication with the ability to obtain SCI and polygraph.

  • Willing to work 100% onsite in a secure environment. 

  • Basic linux skills (3-5 years admin):  Install/update/administer linux (rhel/rocky/debian/ubuntu).  Be able to manage bare-metal hardware installs (pxe/manual/automated install of OS).  Working skillset including: users, applications, OS packages, kernel/OS configuration, filesystems (xfs, ext4, nfs, fuse), networks, firewall, security/hardening (STIG, OSCAP).

  • Hardware skills (3-5 years, various hardware vendors: Dell/SM/HPE):  Hands on experience racking systems, connecting network and direct attach storage devices.  Lights-out management of systems local/remote.  BMC management/firmware updates/setup.  Familiar with storage hardware: NAS, SAN, direct attach, sata/sas/nvme drive.

  • Working knowledge of PCIe cards: Raid/network/GPU/other.

  • Basic knowledge of HPC technologies (experience work of at least 1-3 years)  such as

    • parallel/distributed file systems (e.g. Lustre, Ceph, GPFS, GlusterFS, BeeGFS)

    • high speed interconnect fabrics (e.g. Infiniband, Omni-path, RoCE)

    • HPC batch schedulers (e.g. PBSpro, OpenPBS, SLURM, Torque, HTCondor, SGE)

    • Basic understanding of how HPC environments function

    • Able to work with users and help them understand how HPC systems function

    • Nice to have working knowledge of cluster managers (Bright Cluster Manager now named Base Command Manager;  xCAT, Warewulf, Rocks,  Scyld)

  • The willingness to gain a better understanding of HPC methods and applications, someone who wants to be mentored.

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