High-Performance Computing (HPC) Application Support Engineer - Full-time

Description

Maritime Systems Division has an immediate opening for a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Application Support Engineer.  This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills and experience in the development and integration of a critical HPC environment.  As the HPC Application Support Engineer, you will work alongside our government customer ensuring the successful delivery of this vital capability.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage, deploy, and support applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Work with users to customize applications and development environments to specification
• Work with the team to define and implement best practices
• Monitor internally developed applications for impact to system performance and resource
• utilization
• Tune applications to optimize performance and reliability of services across the Highperformance Computing (HPC) ecosystem
• Diagnose application problems quickly and effectively
• Automate administration procedures for routine and complex tasks
• Provide backup HPC system administration support
• Coordinate with vendors to resolve software problems

Basic Qualifications

• Requires BS and 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience and and a minimum of 2 years of experience in Linux/UNIX Systems Administration.
• Experience supporting internally developed applications in C, C++, Java, and Python
• An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance from the Department of
• Defense.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team
• 5 years of experience supporting HPC applications and development environments on RHEL
• Certifications: Security+, RHCSA or RHCE
• Experience troubleshooting application execution through resource managers such as PBS Pro and Slurm
• Experience with utilities such as Git, Bitbucket, Confluence
• An understanding of code review, compilers, and debugging tools including Intel Parallel Studio,
• GCC, GDB, TotalView
• Experience supporting applications based on CUDA, OpenCL, OpenMPI, OpenMP, IntelMPI
• Experience using tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, and SNMP to monitor systems, metrics, and create dashboards
• Ability to develop and maintain programs and scripts that aid in the operation and automation of administrative tasks and workflows using Bash and Python
• Ability to identify requirements and to define, plan, and implement requisite solutions
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize tasks, and complete assigned projects with minimal supervision

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.