Position overview
NCI (National Compute Infrastructure) is Australia’s leading national provider of high-end computational and data-intensive services, with a highly respected reputation for its services, expertise and innovation. It forms an integral part of the Australia Government’s research infrastructure strategy, and is engaged with, and embedded in research communities, high-impact research centres, and research institutions nationally. NCI is an operating unit of the Australian National University.
NCI is seeking a HPC Systems Specialist to join the HPC team. This person will play a central role in data-to-day administering, configuring and maintaining a world-class petascale HPC service.
Key responsibilities include
Take a leading role in administering and maintaining modern, scalable Linux HPC cluster systems including operating systems, filesystems, storage, networking, backup/recovery, software licenses and other system software.
Monitor, diagnose and rectify system faults in HPC systems including hardware and system scalability issues.
Implement, enhance and administer cluster monitoring and reliability logging infrastructure.
Liaise with stakeholders and play a leading role in supporting user access, workload and resource management systems and utilities.
Deploy, configure and maintain HPC system hardware.
Implement and maintain adherence to, the NCI security policies across HPC and associated systems.
About you
To thrive in this role you will bring:
A relevant degree and extensive experience with HPC systems (hardware configuration and deployment and finding and resolving complex issues with large-scale systems) OR an equivalent combination of experience and education/training.
Demonstrated excellent knowledge and extensive experience of Unix/Linux, particularly network and filesystem configuration and management (including performance tuning) in a HPC cluster environment.
Extensive knowledge and experience of scripting language(s) such as bash, python or perl suitable for system configuration and management, and C sufficient for improving system packages and utilities.
A high level of understanding of scalable, reliable system management, practises and utilities particularly for system provisioning and monitoring.
An awareness of the compute resource needs of scientific computing applications, particularly large-scale parallel applications.
A high level of understanding of and experience in IT security in Unix/Linux environments.
More information and apply at https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/hpc-systems-specialist-canberra-act-act-australia
