Senior HPC Systems Administrator, SAS Computing

Job Description Summary

The Linux Infrastructure Services (LIS) group at the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) is seeking a passionate and skilled Senior HPC Systems Administrator. Join our team and collaborate with world-renowned researchers tackling questions about the human brain, the upper atmosphere, ocean biogeochemistry, social program impacts, and more. Under the guidance of the HPC team leadership, you will ensure the smooth operation of our HPC research services using technologies like GPU's, CPU's, Slurm, conda, infiniband, and many other components of a modern, shared HPC environment. This position is hybrid-eligible.

Job Responsibilities/Duties

Serve as a Sr. Systems Administrator managing complex Linux systems. This role involves supporting our research computing clusters, databases, and web servers. In addition to the School-based HPC services, this role will involve supporting SAS researchers who use Penn's new PARCC (Penn Advanced Research Computing Center) centralized HPC services, including both CPU and GPU cutting-edge technologies.

Under the direction of the HPC team leadership, maintain, configure, and provide automation support for high-performance computing solutions in our datacenters and the cloud. Engage with researchers to understand how HPC can enhance and transform their work. Proactively pursue efficient and collaborative solutions to requests, partnering with faculty and local computing support providers across the school.

• Deploy and manage Linux systems
• Develop shell and python scripts
• Configure, manage, and optimize job scheduling software (SLURM)
• Install and configure free and licensed software
• Monitor systems and services
• Perform routine systems maintenance
• Manage data and configuration backups
• Coordinate hardware repairs
• Oversee ordering and installation of hardware
• Recommend and track software and hardware changes
• Automate systems configuration tasks and deployments
• Provide technical consulting and end-user Linux support
• Support web services
• Assist first-tier support staff with end-users issues on our systems
• Maintain expert-level knowledge of HPC technologies
• Propose and implement improvements to our HPC services
• Provide support for SAS researchers using Penn's PARCC central HPC cluster and partner with the PARCC team to meet the needs of SAS faculty

This position also participates in the linux systems administration on-call rotations, which includes on-prem and cloud (AWS) services.