Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Analysis Group is one of the largest international economics consulting firms, with more than 1,500 professionals across 15 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1981, we have provided expertise in economics, finance, health care analytics, and strategy to top law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, and government agencies worldwide. Our internal experts, together with our network of affiliated experts from academia, industry, and government, offer our clients exceptional breadth and depth of expertise.

The role is responsible for the operation and maintenance of a Linux clustered computing environment, the Linux operating system, and general infrastructure activities. The administrator ensures that all systems are operating efficiently, devices are current, monitors, documents and reports on system operation, including change management and performance statistics.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

Maintain, tune and manage analytical computing environment for statisticians

Optimize systems and infrastructure performance with parallelization technologies

Experience with the design, implementation and management of security best practices for a HPC environment, including threat monitoring, advanced log monitoring, ransomware protection and DLP techniques.

Manage access authentication including PAM, LDAP integration and single sign-on

Design and develop scripts for system administration, automating tasks, monitoring and usage reporting

Troubleshoots, isolates and resolves application, systems and other technical problems (hardware, software, network)

Develops and implements secure backup and recovery programs

Researches, deploys and manages general infrastructure, including development of policies and procedures

Migrates data from heterogeneous environments to Linux or cloud

Monitor performance, troubleshoot problem areas and provide statistics and reports

Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, processes, change management, inventory and service records

Ensure continuous network connectivity of all equipment

Conduct research and report on products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the technology industry

24x7 On-call rotation, troubleshoot/resolve remotely or onsite as necessary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required. Degree in computer science or electrical engineering preferred

Minimum of 5 years of substantive relevant experience required

An ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience as a Hands-on Linux Systems Administrator in a research or production setting

Experience managing SAS grid, Python, R and Stata environments

Experience with SLURM is helpful

Experience with Bright Cluster Manager is highly desired

Experience with Ansible is highly desired

Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure) is highly desired

Proficiency with remote access technologies and tools such as RDP, SSH and emulation software

Experience with integrating Linux in a Microsoft Windows client environment

Experience with Clusters and Cluster File Systems using technologies such as GPFS, BeeGFS or GFS2 or other clustered file systems

Experience with TCP/IP troubleshooting, including UDP and multicast

Experience with interpreted or scripting language (Perl, Python, Bash)

Experience with TSM and Git is highly desired

Experience with automating OS and application installations is highly desired

Technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards

Excellent hardware troubleshooting experience

Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws

Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail

Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities

Strong customer service orientation

Experience working in a collaborative environment

An inclusive and growth-oriented mindset, strong interpersonal skills, and an ability to work across functions.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the United States, without sponsorship or restriction, now and in the future.

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