HPC DevOps Engineer

Key Skills

Analytical and Problem solving, Apache Hadoop, AWS, Azure, Big Data Technology, Bitbucket, C++, CUDA kernels, DevOps, Effective communication skills, Git, Github, GitLab, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), High performance computing- HPC, Java Programming, Jenkins, Kubernetes-K8s, Linux Operating system, Perl Programming, PHP Programming, Puppet, Python Programming, Ruby on Rails, SPARK Programming, Unix Operating system, US Healthcare Recruitment

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to activities focused on availability, tuning, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning.
• Engage in and improve, under guidance, the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Monitors and resolves Incident/problems with platform operations, suggesting priorities and collaborating in the resolution when required.
• Contribute to support services before they go live through activities such as infrastructure design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by proposing changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Contribute to the maintenance of services once they are in production by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Look for continuous improvement activities both in technical, teamwork, collaboration and processes areas. Propose and contribute to continuous improvement activities.

Job Requirements / Qualifications

• Well proven scripting and automation skills with strong knowledge in delivering and managing infrastructure as code.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated customer & delivery focus.
• Ability to work effectively with team members and virtual teams from different locations and different cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to work independently with low supervision and navigate ambiguity.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills in English. 

• Ability to work across multiple time zones, including on-call and occasionally travel.

Education / Years of Experience

• At least 1 year experience of relevant working experience in multinational work environments (e.g. healthcare industry experience is a plus).

Technology Skills

• Extensive use of infrastructure automation tools, infrastructure as code, scripting languages, logging, monitoring and observability, infrastructure configuration, and applications. 
• Infrastructure as code: AWX, Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack or equivalents.
• Coding and scripting: PHP, Python, YAML, shell, Perl and/or Ruby or equivalents.
• Distributed version control and source code management tools: GIT, bitbucket, github, gitlab or equivalents.
• Monitoring and observability (e.g. LogicMonitor, Nagios, Ganglia, ELK).
• Experience working with Parallel Filesystem (e.g. Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS).
• Experience working with Object storage (NetApp StorageGrid, S3).
• Background in Linux/Unix Server technologies (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu plus Satellite / Foreman).
• Linux/Unix High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters configurations and workload managers (ie IBM LSF, SLURM).
• Knowledge about defining Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators.

Nice to have technologies:

• Storage Scale-out NAS (e.g. Isilon, NetApp)
• Mellanox (Infiniband network) or equivalent
• Container orchestration platform experience - (e.g. Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Knowledge of parallel programming techniques and tuning, CUDA, MPI, or OpenMPI
• Big Data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, Mapreduce, Spark)
• Programming skills in high level languages such as Java or C++ are a plus
• Public Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure & GCP or equivalents