Senior HPC Systems Administrator

We pride ourselves on an open, and honest culture in the workplace which builds morale conducive to inspiring growth on our team, while balancing lifestyle by supporting personal and family goals with flexibility. We offer secure network systems and software engineering solutions in both the public and private sectors. With certified experts consulting the team, we are able to address the customer's mission and follow-through in the systems development life cycle. 

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with poly
• Title: Senior HPC Systems Administrator IV
• Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
• Salary Range: $180-210K

Description: The Senior HPC Systems Administrator with Tulzi Technologies, LLC will play a critical role in the health and status of the entire IT infrastructure utilizing UNIX and NT based systems, Installing and configuring hardware, OSes and commercial software packages. 

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related field and (10) years of demonstrable experience in system administration, and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise. Or (5) years of full time computer science work in lieu of Bachelor’s degree, and (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 (1) year of experience
• Experience in installation and configuration of hardware, operating systems, and commercial software packages 
• Experience in installation, configuration, and networking of UNIX and/or NT based platforms 
• Experience in the installation, and configuration of hardware, operating systems, and commercial software packages.
• Creating, modifying, and deleting user accounts, performing system back-ups, and maintaining system configuration files.
• Fundamental understanding of operating systems, and be familiar with either UNIX or NT commands or utilities at the user level. 
• Must be able to develop, and enterprise backup/recovery strategies, server configuration, and consolidation, and verification of the health and status of the entire IT infrastructure.
• Must be able to provide support for enterprise services such as DNS, NFS, email services, security protection mechanisms, and the interoperability of UNIX and NT based systems.

In addition to the above qualifications, SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR IV FOR HPC must have the following qualifications required by the relevant TTO:• Installation, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting and administration of: 

• Multi-vendor servers running numerous COTS, opensource, and in-house applications to accommodate HPC Division IT support requirements
• Multi-vendor servers running Red Hat of 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 Special Purpose devices (SPDs)
• IBM of 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 the HPS systems
• Accepted professional certifications include:
  • Valid RHCSA or higher red Hat certification
  • Valid VMWare certification
  • *IAT Level II Certification Required*
  • *Candidates with Lustre Experience highly preferred*

Benefits:

We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package and FUN place to work! Benefits include, but not limited to:

Health and Wellness Benefits

• Medical Insurance (three CareFirst healthcare plans to choose from, Dental and Vision Insurance, 75% covered for employee/ 50% per dependant

• Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions $1500 individual/ $3000 family

Personal Insurance Benefits 

• Company-paid Life Insurance and AD&D coverage

• Company-paid Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance

Paid Leave

• Employees receive 20 days of vacation/10 holidays built into hourly rate/ 5 days of sick time (currently used for snow, jury, bereavement) 

Retirement

•  Pre-tax 401k program including 6% company match

• 100% fully vested from eligibility date

*Eligible after 90 days of employment

Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.