HPC Storage Engineer, Entry Level
Overview:
The HPC Storage and Archive Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking a highly motivated Storage Systems Engineer to play a key role in the administration and support of massive parallel distributed filesystems, along with the accompanying storage subsystems and underlying Infiniband and Fibre-channel based SAN infrastructure.
The HPC Storage and Archive Group administers and supports high-speed parallel file systems and archive capabilities, which support the overall mission of leadership-class and scalable computing programs.
This position will be part of the HPC Systems Section within National Center for Computational Sciences Division (NCCS).The HPC Systems Section administers and supports the division’s computing, networking, and storage systems.
The NCCS provides state-of-the-art computational and data science infrastructure, coupled with dedicated technical and scientific professionals, to accelerate scientific discovery and engineering advances across a broad range of disciplines. NCCS hosts the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, one of DOE’s National User Facilities.
The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), which hosts several of the world’s most powerful compute and storage systems, is seeking highly qualified individuals to play a key role in improving the security, performance, functionality, and reliability of the NCCS storage infrastructure. This includes supporting storage system infrastructure for one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, Summit. Summit is one of the scientific research community's most powerful computational tools for exploring solutions to some of today's most challenging problems.
Major Duties/Responsibilities:
- Work with the team to define and implement best practices and standards within the organization
- Automate systems administration tasks utilizing open source configuration management tools
- Tune operating systems and applications to increase performance and reliability of services
- Diagnose system operational problems quickly and effectively
- Document system administration procedures for routine and complex tasks
- Participate in an on-call rotation providing 24-hour, 7-day support and off-hours maintenance windows
- Coordinate with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or closely related field. An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
- Prior experience managing Linux/UNIX operating systems in a heterogeneous environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team
- Working knowledge of Linux system fundamentals and common network protocols and technologies
- Ability to develop and maintain programs and scripts that aid in the operation and automation of administrative tasks using various shell and scripting languages.
- Ability to identify requirements and to define, plan, and implement requisite solutions
- Ability to plan, organize, prioritize tasks, and complete assigned projects with minimal supervision
- Experience building custom packages for RHEL/CentOS using RPM.
- Experience in common RAID schemes
Special Requirement:
This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance from the Department of Energy. As such, this position is a Workplace Substance Abuse program (WSAP) testing designed position which requires passing a pre-placement drug test and participation in an ongoing random drug testing program in which employees are subject to being randomly selected for testing. The occupant of this position will also be subject to an ongoing requirement to report to ORNL any drug-related arrest or conviction or receipt of a positive drug test result.
Benefits at ORNL
UT Battelle offers an exceptional benefits package to include matching 401K, Pension Plan, Paid Vacation and Medical / Dental plan. Onsite amenities include Credit Union, Medical Clinic, and free Fitness facilities.
Relocation
Relocation to the Knoxville/Oak Ridge area is a requirement for this position.
UT-Battelle offers a generous relocation package to ease the transition process. Domestic and international relocation assistance is available for this position.
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This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.
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ORNL is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. UT-Battelle is an E-Verify employer.