HPC - Senior System Administrator - VMware, Linux, Configuration

Overview

Erias Ventures was founded to serve its customers with an entrepreneurial mindset. We value creative problem-solving open communication , and empowering our employees to make decisions and put forth new ideas. Our staff includes technical experts working across multiple disciplines, bringing diverse perspectives to every project. We are seeking engineers who wish to grow their careers and want to become part of a technicallystrong and growth-oriented company focused on bringing innovative solutions to the difficult mission problems facing our customers.

Role Description

Description

This Systems Administrator is responsible for overseeing the most critical aspects of the HPC and Datacenter Infrastructure. They lead strategic planning, architecture design, and the deployment of enterprise-scale projects. They solve the organization's most complex technical issues, contribute to IT strategy, and drive innovations to ensure the robustness, security, and efficiency of the infrastructure.

In this senior role, professionals are expected to manage essential infrastructure services, ensuring high availability and performance of data center services, physical and virtual server-class systems and storage. They are expected to lead medium-to-large scale projects, design and implement system policies, conduct advance troubleshooting, and are pivotal in the direct recovery efforts during critical system failures. They also mentor junior staff members. Professionals in this role are expected to have the ability to work alone and as part of a larger team to complete projects on time.

Clearance

A current Top-Secret / SCI with polygraph security clearance is required. Candidates cannot be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance under this position.

Experience

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.

Required skills

• CompTIA Security+ CE
• Mastery of the VMware ecosystem, and extensive experience in Hyper-converged Infrastructure environments across multiple security enclaves and data centers. Knowledge of Performance Optimized Datacenter (PODs), CentOS and RHEL 7 / 8 / 9 system administration, and VDI (specifically VMware Horizon, Citrix VDI). In-depth experience with Active Directory, LDAP and Centrify for identity management, Infoblox for core network services, and proficiency in using Nagios and Splunk for system monitoring and analytics. Advanced skills in automation shell scripting, automation, streamlining, and system configuration using tools like Salt and Ansible.
• Experience with Linux provisioning server tools such as Kickstart and Cobbler to facilitate the automation of network-based system installations of multiple computer operating systems.
• Strategize and supervise extensive security protocols, utilizing Tenable Nessus for comprehensive vulnerability assessments and proactive security enhancements on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Govern account and access management landscapes using Centrify and Active Directory, ensuring stringent security compliance and efficient user privilege orchestration.
• Innovate security mitigation methodologies to fortify enterprise infrastructure against evolving cyber threats.
• Enterprise-level management of Hyper-converged Infrastructure, vendor hardware and software across multiple data centers.
• Experience using Atlassian's team collaboration software suite like Jira and Confluence to help organize teams, discuss and complete shared work.
• Lead cross-functional collaborations with network, storage, and SecOps teams, orchestrating major initiatives, critical outage management, and strategic improvements.
• Installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting and administration of : multi-vendor servers running numerous COTS, opensource, and in-house applications to support HPC Division IT requirements. Multi-vendor servers running Red Hat or SuSE with direct attached FC SAN storage or SSDs.
• Distributing computing tools such as ReS, LSF, and SLURM
• HPC farm systems, HPC MPP clustered systems, Front End servers of SPDs
• IBM or HP Blade servers with FC / SAS / Network back end
• Multi-vendor filesystems such as XFS, GPFS and Lustre
• Pre-Factory testing, Factory testing, System integration and Acceptance testing during the purchase process of HPC systems

Desired skills

Benefits

Erias Ventures provides a complete package of wealth, health, and happiness benefits. The expected salary range for this position, depending on education and years of experience is $245,000 - $285,000.

Wealth Benefits

Health Benefits

Happiness Benefits

At Erias Ventures, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As an equal opportunity employer, we ensure that all qualified applicants are considered for employment based on merit, without discrimination. We welcome individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Referrals & Inquiries

Do you know a cleared professional seeking to advance their career? Interested in earning some extra cash? If so, refer them to us with their name and contact details, and you could be eligible for a referral bonus of up to $10,000 for each successful hire.

Not seeing the right position right now? Reach out to us, and we'll notify you as new contracts and opportunities become available!

Please send referrals and inquiries to :

jobs@eriasventures.com

To learn more about our company visit our webpage or LinkedIn.

J-18808-Ljbffr