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Linux Engineer

Linux Engineer

This is a contract position in the Westchase area. You will be responsible for the hybrid on-premises and cloud HPC environment supporting proprietary software and supporting the Geosolutions production groups.

Specific Work Requirements:
· A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a large HPC enterprise environment comprising thousands of servers, large storage solutions, tape and tape automation.
· Proficient in the installation, configuration and management of Linux based operating systems, preferably using RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux.
· Experience with IBM’s xCAT distributed computing management software.
· Experience with installation and maintenance of computer hardware including servers, tape drives, robotic tape libraries, GPGPU, SSD, disk arrays.
· Knowledge of networking and datacenter technologies, switching, routing, high-availability, LAN / WAN / WLAN topologies and system configuration for Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fiber Channel SAN.
· Experience with HPC Storage Solutions, HPE ClusterStor systems, NetApp, Dell Isilon, Pure Storage, EMC VNX storage and StorNext data management software configuration and operation.
· Ability to write and troubleshoot Bourne, Bash and C Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby and MRTG scripts.
· Experience with PostgreSQL and database installation and support.
· Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Azure public clouds. Able to provision and manage instances, build images, write installation scripts.
· Experience with configuration tools like Ansible and Terraform.
· Experience with backup and recovery tools, IBM Spectrum, Dell Networker.
· Good knowledge of Linux security.
· Ability to evaluate HPC system environments and make recommendations for improvement in performance and manageability.
· Ability to investigate, debug and diagnose system level issues.

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Description

This is a contract position in the Westchase area. You will be responsible for the hybrid on-premises and cloud HPC environment supporting proprietary software and supporting the Geosolutions production groups.

Specific Work Requirements:
· A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a large HPC enterprise environment comprising thousands of servers, large storage solutions, tape and tape automation.
· Proficient in the installation, configuration and management of Linux based operating systems, preferably using RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux.
· Experience with IBM’s xCAT distributed computing management software.
· Experience with installation and maintenance of computer hardware including servers, tape drives, robotic tape libraries, GPGPU, SSD, disk arrays.
· Knowledge of networking and datacenter technologies, switching, routing, high-availability, LAN / WAN / WLAN topologies and system configuration for Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fiber Channel SAN.
· Experience with HPC Storage Solutions, HPE ClusterStor systems, NetApp, Dell Isilon, Pure Storage, EMC VNX storage and StorNext data management software configuration and operation.
· Ability to write and troubleshoot Bourne, Bash and C Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby and MRTG scripts.
· Experience with PostgreSQL and database installation and support.
· Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Azure public clouds. Able to provision and manage instances, build images, write installation scripts.
· Experience with configuration tools like Ansible and Terraform.
· Experience with backup and recovery tools, IBM Spectrum, Dell Networker.
· Good knowledge of Linux security.
· Ability to evaluate HPC system environments and make recommendations for improvement in performance and manageability.
· Ability to investigate, debug and diagnose system level issues.

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