Group Leader, HPC Platforms

Requisition Id 15284 

 

Overview:

We are seeking a Group Leader (GL) for HPC Platforms group in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). Selection will be based on qualifications, relevant experience, skills, and education. NCCS Provides state-of-the-art computational and data science infrastructure coupled with dedicated technical and scientific professionals tackling large-scale problems across a broad range of scientific domains for accelerating scientific discovery and engineering advances. NCCS hosts the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, one of DOE’s National User Facilities which operates Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer.

 

Purpose:

The GL provides both technical and non-technical leadership to a group of between 8-12 Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers, along with several remote contractors which help to support the group and overall NCCS mission. Strategically advance technical professional subject matter expertise for a variety of technical projects, programs or operations consistent with ORNL’s culture, historical leadership, and continued goal to be the world’s premier R&D institution for computational science. The GL is expected to drive towards this goal ensuring reliable operations while embracing innovation to support emerging DOE mission priorities.

 

The GL is onsite at ORNL and orchestrates and oversees a group of peers with the primary goal of pursuing global leadership in their field, nurtures ORNL’s culture among group members, and continues to build and scale up individual excellence and impact. The Technical Group Leader reports to and works closely with the Section Head to implement the group’s technical vision; works closely with group members to identify areas for growth, set/establish performance-related goals, address performance-related deficiencies, and provide opportunities to further enable their career advancement; establishes capabilities that enable programs to excel at the forefront of technical professional expertise; works to solve technical challenges for science, engineering, or technical projects and functions; sets, implements, and models standards for performance of work consistent with Environment, Safety, Security, Health, and Quality (ESH&Q) requirements and business rules; and create a workplace that sets an example for the broader community.

 

Technical:

Technical professionals are recognized leaders in their area by providing subject matter expertise for a variety of technical projects, programs, or operations. Solves technical challenges for science, engineering, operations or projects.

 

The Group Leader will guide the HPC Platforms Group in its responsibility for the day-to-day administration and support of the NCCS capability computing needs --for the OLCF and other programs/initiatives/partnerships. Activities include program and project-related requirements gathering, system architecture and procurement efforts, along with the subsequent installation and deployment, acceptance and performance testing, upgrades, problem diagnosis and troubleshooting, etc.

Act as the technical lead for the HPC Platforms team, leading the development and modernization of platform services. Architect expansion of OpenShift cluster resources for both on premise and cloud environments while maintaining the security and integrity of the OLCF Slate service platform. Develop group members in skills and capabilities to enable their career advancement.

 

Architect solutions to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and (operational) efficiency of the OLCF Slate service, build on Kubernetes and the RedHat OpenShift Container Platform. Manage the incident response process to investigate and fix service issues from bare metal through the OS to the OpenShift platform to the application code. Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and applications via practices such as Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps. Provide guidance, training, and self-service tools to assist users in effective employment of Kubernetes managed containers.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities:

Leadership

• Develop a vision and implement a cohesive group strategy to ensure the success of new and ongoing technical projects to position the group for future success. 
• Develop and implement plans to exploit new opportunities and/or expand existing efforts. Engage deeply with other groups in the division to make plans that balance risk and innovation while delivering reliable operations.
• Assist staff in setti