Junior HPC Systems Engineer at 1871 Member Company

Parallel Works is a Chicago-based startup focused on technical computing for science, engineering and business applications. The Parallel Works SaaS platform makes high performance computing (HPC) workflows easy, fast and collaborative on hybrid cloud and supercomputing environments. The platform acts as middleware between these wide ranges of computing resources and allows organizations to leverage their resource, billing and user hierarchies in a uniform way. Our customers range from small and nimble startups and research organizations creating innovative computing and ML pipelines to the world’s leading flood modeling engineers to government weather and defense agencies to global automotive suppliers. The Role This position involves development and enhancement of the Parallel Works platform, which runs on all three leading public cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, Google and Oracle Cloud. You’ll work with cloud APIs, workflow management frameworks, container systems, resource management tools, and parallel programming tools and libraries, OS performance measurement and monitoring tools, HPC schedulers and debuggers. This will be a support heavy role providing level 2 and 3 support, and will take care of the day to day support requests that come in from customers.

Requirements

• Managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Become highly fluent with the entire platform, be able to demonstrate it to current and potential customers, and engage with current and potential customers regarding platform customization and feature evolution.
• Work closely with the platform/UI/API developers to support and grow the overall platform product and service Provide 2nd and 3rd level support

SKILLS and QUALIFICATIONS

• 2-3 years of experience with system administration / support for linux and/or cloud systems.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• High performance data transport tools (CSP tools, Globus, Skyplane)
• Solid cloud experience: AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle
• Experience with containerization (Docker, k8s)
• Solid Scripting skills (bash required)
• Familiarity as a user on campus/company clusters
• Experience using or administering HPC clusters in the requested skills

Parallel Works is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Parallel Works will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive technical evaluation and a background check. ** For more information on Parallel Works, please visit https://parallelworks.com **

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision

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