Northrop Grumman
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CLEARANCE TYPE: A US Government security clearance per customer's requirements.TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.t Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC) is seeking a Staff HPC System Engineer. This positionislocated at Annapolis Junction or Linthicum, MD sites.
Responsibilities
- Oversee design, deployment, and lifecycle operation of a high-performance compute cluster
- Lead team of HPC Systems Administrators
- Assess and respond to customer requests for cluster modifications, including oversight of requirement gathering and analysis, planning, implementation, verification/validation, and production deployment maintenance
- Investigate, diagnose, and resolve acute system faults
- Ensure system performance aligns with customer requirements and remain within technical, schedule, and cost constraints
- Maintain software deployments
- Maintain security compliance
- Monitor and maintain hardware
- Contribute to design of new high-performance compute clusters
- Interface with user support staff
- Assess new technology for benefits and risks by performing trade studies of technological function, value proposition, and deployment timeline
- Assess and report on cluster operational risks and propose, plan, and deploymitigation strategies
Basic qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in a STEM discipline with 12 years' relevant experience; 10 years' experience with a Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline; 8 years with PhD in a STEM discipline.
- Demonstrated experience maintaining computational hardware through its lifecycle
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and responding to customer requirements
- Strong Linux (Red Hat) systems administration proficiency
- Strong knowledge and experience with concepts of high-performance computing system operations, including cluster management, multi-user login environments, job scheduling, and networked file systems
- Strong knowledge and experience maintaining compliance with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
- Strong knowledge and experience with compiling software
- Strong knowledge and experience monitoring and maintaining high-performance compute cluster hardware
- Experience directing technical work of a small team of Linux Systems Administrators
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Candidate Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Active US Government security clearance per customers requirements
Preferred qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI with full-scope polygraph security clearance
- IAT Level II certification
- Experience with MPI implementations
- Experience with high-speed, low-latency network fabrics
- Experience with parallel file systems
- Experience with GPUs