Application Engineer

Application Engineer

Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of an Application Engineer for a contract position in Austin, TX. The opportunity will be for six months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary: The IT Infrastructure and Engineering group provides the high-performance compute environment that fuels product and solutions development for the client's engineering community. Whether it's high-performance compute (HPC) on clients' on-prem infrastructure and/or in the cloud, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, or customized software tools and workflows, the products and services we deliver are used by every engineer in Client.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Working closely with technical leads, technical managers, project managers, and engineering teams across Infrastructure and Engineering teams, you will be a motivator in providing automated project solutions, supporting daily ticket systems for common technical issues, and being a core resource for high-visibility projects which supply to making our services secure, resilient, and apply the newest technologies.

Qualifications:

• Experience 6-10 years
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• Strong set of Red Hat skills, preferably RH Certification
• Understanding about operations in any public cloud platforms (e.g AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Understanding of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Automation, Jira, and Confluence experience)
• Solid grasp on Linux OS fundamentals, solve problems and performance tuning
• Good understanding of HPC infrastructure and applications
• Exposure to HPC workload management tools like IBM Spectrum LSF
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Shell, Python, Perl, etc.)
• Experience with cloud technologies in AWS and/or Google Cloud
• Good understanding and experience in infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting tools
• Good understanding about remote display and interactive technologies like ETX
• Solid skills with Vulnerability Management and security patching of constantly evolving environment
• Skills and attitude on automating common repetitive tasks
• Relevant experience in a distributed team
• Working in a sophisticated, multi-geography, engineering services environment
• Providing technical support to the engineering user community

Preferred:

• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Artifactory, and/or Continuous Integration (CI) applications
• Knowledge on HPC applications like Flex-based Licenses, EDA tools

If this job is a match for your background, we would be honoured to receive your application!

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