What are the responsibilities and job description for the High Performance Computing Systems Administrator position at Protingent?
Job Description
Position Title: High Performance Computing Systems Administrator
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity located in Broomfield, CO.
Job Responsibilities:
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Title: High Performance Computing Systems Administrator
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity located in Broomfield, CO.
Job Responsibilities:
- Server Maintenance: Oversee the configuration, installation, and upgrades of hardware and software, ensuring compliance with security policies and procedures.
- Documentation: Keep thorough documentation of network server configurations, application licensing agreements, and third-party software.
- Support and Monitoring: Provide on-call support, monitor infrastructure proactively, and resolve issues promptly.
- Software and Hardware Testing: Participate in testing new software and hardware.
- Collaboration: Work closely with the Application and Development teams to onboard new team members. Provide real-time training and maintain/improve existing development pipelines that utilize HPC clusters.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 10 plus years proven experience in a similar role
- Relevant experience may be considered in liu of required education
- Experiencing deploying/maintaining on-prem HPC Clusters
- Experience deploying/maintain of HPC Clusters in cloud environments
- Experience with slurm/pbs/torque schedulers
- Experience running Monte Carlo simulations
- Experience with high speed networks (Intel Omnipath, Nvidia Infiniband)
- Experience nfs and parallel file sytems (Beegfs/Lustre)
- Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Scripting experience (Bash, python)
- Basic understanding of cybersecurity principles and practices, focusing on engineering and technical solutions
- Experience with virtual python/conda environments
- Experience with Red Hat Identity Management (IDM) or FreeIPA
- Experience with Nvidia GPUs
- Working knowledge of Puppet/Chef/Ansible
- Experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps.
- Experience with Singularity Containers
- Job Type: Contract
- Location: Broomfield, CO.
- Pay Rate Range: $60-83/hr.
- ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C.
- 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Salary : $60 - $83