High Performance Compute (HPC) Systems Administrator in Fort Meade, Maryland at Neural Solutions LLC

About Neural Solutions LLC

At Neural Solutions, we believe that investing in our team's development is key to our success. By providing our employees with the means and opportunities to become the best versions of themselves, we cultivate an environment of innovation and expertise. This focus on personal and professional growth directly translates into the high-quality, advanced solutions we offer our clients.

Our commitment to both employee development and technical delivery sets us apart in the industry. We pride ourselves on creating a workplace where talent thrives and where our clients receive state-of-the-art AI and cyber security applications that meet their evolving needs.

About the role

As an HPC System Administrator you will be in charge of building and maintaining HPC systems to enable ensure availability and mission success. This role will require communication with stakeholders to ensure services are meeting their needs and understanding future needs that should be considered.

What you'll do

We are seeking HPC Systems Administrators to:

• Support a large client-server based IT enterprise in installation, configuration, and networking of Linux and Windows based platforms.
• Oversee servers running Red Hat, CentOS, SolarisX64, SuSe, Virtual Appliances, with direct attached and FC SAN storage.
• Troubleshoot PXE and DHCP boot process
• Perform Microsoft Exchange Policy management, mailbox management, enterprise-leve, multi-site design and architecture
• Support Tier 3 Infrastructure services such as: DNS, NIS, Active Directory, Centrify, Zenoss, SiteScope, HP Openview, HP Oneview, HPSA, HPSE, SPLUNK, Sendmail, Exchange, NetQoS, Infoblox, Nagios, HP Cluster Management
• Install, configure, tune and troubleshoot multi-vendor servers running numerous COTS, open source and in-house applications

Qualifications

• TS/SCI clearance with appropriate poly
• Ability to work onsite 100% of the time
• Candidates shall have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and have ten (10) years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise.
• Or the individual shall have five (5) years of full time computer science work that can be substituted for the Bachelor’s Degree, and have ten (10) years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise.
• An industry recognized professional certification may substitute as one year experience. IAT Level II Certification Required.
• Experience with the following:
• • Servers running Red Hat, CentOS, SolarisX64, SuSe, Virtual Appliances, with direct attached and FC SAN storage
  • Large SPU, memory SMP systems and clusters with many cores
  • Enterprise client server configurations (Group Policy, Centrify, DNS, LDAP
  • Linux Scripting (Bash, Perl etc)
  • Linux Logical Volume Management (LVM)
  • Distributed Filesystems
  • Configuration Management tools
  • Experience troubleshooting PXE and DHCP boot process.
  • Multi-vendor filesystems such as XFS, GPFS, and CXFS, EXT4, CIFS, NFSClustered Blade systems and associated interconnects (iSCSI, SAD, FC, TCP/IP, etc.)
  • Advanced Red Hat/CentOS and Microsoft Windows Operating System (including Group Policy management)
  • Microsoft Exchange policy management, mailbox management, enterprise-level multi-site design and architecture
  • Enterprise Active Directory/Centrify Zone management (creation, update, RBAC)
  • Tier 3 Infrastructure support for services such as DNS, NIS, Active Directory, Centrify, Zenoss, SiteScope, HP Openview, HP Oneview, HPSA, HPSE, SPLUNK, Sendmail, Exchange, NetQoS, Infoblox, Nagios, HP Cluster Management
  • Thin client solutions based on Virtual bridges and Centrix, VPN
  • NoMachine NX Virtual Desktop management
  • Experience with Enterprise Virtualization products; VMWare, vSphere, vCenter, vRealize Automation, vSAN
  • vSwitch, Distributed Switch, Console management
  • OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes