Senior Systems Engineer I

Job Description

Senior Systems Engineer I

New York, NY

Duties: Full ownership \& responsibility for the intake, planning, execution \& delivery of HPC features/epics/project deliverables. Work closely with senior engineers and technical leadership to implement reliable, scalable solutions that support the scientists. Regularly review teammates' code for correctness, readability, performance \& adherence to project standards. Provide constructive feedback \& foster a collaborative review culture that emphasizes learning \& quality improvement. Identify opportunities to enhance system reliability, performance and operational efficiency.

Requirements: Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field plus 5 years of experience (or a Master's degree 3 years) as a Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Systems Analyst, Server Engineer or closely related occupation involving High Performance Computing. Must possess at least 3 years of experience in the following: Taking full responsibility for the planning, execution and delivery of engineering features/epics/project deliverables; Peer code review and peer mentorship; Using Ansible, Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation to define, deploy \& maintain infrastructure; Identifying manual infrastructure configurations \& proactively converting them to automated IaC solutions; Optimizing IaC for speed, completeness, idempotency \& maintainability; Designing \& implementing moderately complex systems \& architectures; Utilizing Linux/Unix Systems Administration to perform daily system administration tasks; Utilizing Bash \& Python to automate repetitive cluster management tasks, write monitoring scripts \& develop custom tools; Supporting computational chemistry and molecular modeling software; Translating scientific requirements into HPC infrastructure needs; Using profiling tools \& system logs to diagnose hardware, network \& software problems affecting large-scale workloads; Involvement in the lifecycle planning of servers; Conducting cost-performance analyses; Building, upgrading \& maintaining HPC software stacks; and, creating \& maintaining internal HPC documentation, guides, and troubleshooting playbooks. May work from home but must be able to report to New York, New York office at least 2 days per week. Salary is $152,652 to $163,900 per year. Qualified applicants must send resumes to [email protected] ref: 625847. Direct applicants only.