HPC Systems Manager

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THE ROLE:

We are seeking a strong HPC systems manager to join our Field Application Engineering team

• Ensure system uptime of our HPC clusters in Munich Germany, and Texas USA
• Enable Field Application Engineers, customers and OEM partners to run in an optimised system configuration.
• Focus is on regional support while being part of a larger team to enable ‘follow-the-sun’ support.
• Explore, evaluate, and deploy emerging hardware and software technologies for HPC and AI environments.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce repetitive tasks and continuously improve HPC operations.

While a technical role, the successful candidate will be able to work with international teams, have a genuine level of curiosity about systems and software, and is always willing and happy to help others in pursuit of excellence.

THE PERSON:

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• Clear track record of managing HPC systems. This must be clearly demonstrable.

• Curious and passionate about technology, with a strong desire to learn, explore, and experiment with new ideas.

• Understands HPC ecosystem: toolchains, parallel file systems, high performance networks, batch managers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good level of business English.
• Strong positive can-do attitude willing to do what is necessary. Runs to problems. Available to help colleagues.
• Open to travel domestic and international, approximately 10%

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure uptime and excellent baseline performance of our systems in Germany and USA.
• Set up both EPYC CPU and Instinct GPU systems.
• Will assist Field Application Engineers, customers, and partners and demonstrate optimum system configuration through BIOS / linux / CPU or GPU systems
• Characterising applications on EPYC and Instinct, documenting results.
• Perform testing on early CPU samples. Active engagement with Engineering, Architecture, Platform, Software, and Product Development teams providing feedback and leadership from the field on future direction.
• Create necessary training material. Provide training sessions at customer sites. Act as specialist and mentor to frontline Field Application Engineering team
• Automating repeatable procedures

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Candidate has a track record of maintain HPC systems and associated HPC middleware. Strong experience with Redhat/Ubuntu/SLES
• Understanding of CPU architecture, settings, and impact on performance
• Can install and maintain compilers (C/C++/Fortran) and math libraries. Familiarity with Zen Software Studio, Intel OneAPI, gcc etc
• Network: Familiar with any of Infiniband, Slingshot, Omnipath/Cornelis, BXI
• Parallel Filesystems: experience with any of Lustre, BeeGFS, GPFS, WekaFS
• Familiar with a batch manager (eg SLURM/PBS) and cluster management tools (Bright/TrinityX)
• Understanding system level hardware and its configuration/impact on performance to enable projections on future performance
• Customer-facing experience. Able to write technical documents and communicate at an appropriate level

Nice to Haves:

• Experience building HPC applications on CPUs and GPUs
• Redhat Certified Engineer
• Knowledge with Openstack, Openshift, k8, docker, CUDA,
• Any experience understanding/inspecting/writing assembly
• Understanding of memory and cache hierarchy and methods to query performance/latency at each level
• Understanding HPC dataflow down to the register-level
• Any security clearance

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors' Degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics) preferred

LOCATION:

Taiwan

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