Addison Group

Senior Linux Admin

Addison Group Houston, TX

Job Title: Senior HPC Linux Admin

Office Status / Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid – 3 Days onsite)

Duration: 6 Month (Contract to Hire)

Key Responsibilities And Skills
  • HPC Linux Administration with Tier 2 and Tier 3 level support
  • Remain knowledgeable of technology trends and business demands to ensure best practices are being implemented for analytical and problem-solving challenges while learning and have flexibility to adapt to new challenges/directions
  • Cyber Security - Good knowledge of internet security and data privacy principles to ensure security and privacy of networks and computer systems
  • Identifies, researches, and resolves the most complex technical problems
  • Change Control management
  • Documentation management
  • Some Agile Project management within company standards
  • Continual service improvement in dynamic environment
  • Service & System monitoring
  • Automation & Optimization
  • Globalization & Standardization – Adhere to Set standard Policies
  • Communicate and collaborate with personnel of various levels and functions
  • The ability to balance workloads across a wide variety of projects
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for after hours and weekend calls
Qualifications And Experience
  • Educated to a Bachelor’s degree level in any of the following disciplines (Desired):
    • Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems or related computing subjects
    • ITIL Foundation level certification (Desired)
    • 5+ years Extensive levels of Linux administration, preferably in an HPC environment
    • Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Gitlab or an equivalent
    • Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services
    • Some experience with SQL, MySQL, and MariaDB
    • Experience with Docker and container orchestration.
    • Excellent coding and scripting (Bash, Python, Perl); shell scripting
    • Experience in fast paced, high-volume critical production environment
    • Very good technical understanding and technical leadership qualities
    • Excellent communications, presentation, and customer service skills, and must have an outstanding track record of meeting customer expectations.
    • Knowledge of GPUs and Immersion Cooling (Desired)
    • Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) and clustering technology (object storage, parallel file systems, RAID storage)
    • Understanding of networks, RAID, and tape subsystems
    • Virtualization knowledge and experience
    • Cloud administration experience
    • OpenStack experience (Desired)
    • SOC2 experience (Desired)
    • Must be detail oriented & work well in a team environment
    • A strong understanding of the DevOps methodologies
    • Ensure confidentiality and reliability of corporate data
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Contract
  • Job function

    Information Technology
  • Industries

    IT Services and IT Consulting and Computer Hardware Manufacturing

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