HPC System Administrator (BT-25025)

The HPC System Administrator will support the JETS II contract at NASA's Johnson Space Center supporting the Flight Sciences Laboratory (FSL).

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The FSL is one of JSC's primary computing labs and hosts a wide variety of analyses, which support almost all of the major programs at JSC including the International Space Station (ISS), Orion, Space Launch System (SLS), Commercial Crew Program, Lunar Gateway, Human Landing System (HLS), and many others.
• The FSL systems are currently comprised of over 900 machines, 25,000 cores and 4 PB of storage, which serve over 900 users.
• In this position you will be working with a team of Systems Administrators to build and maintain all FSL services. This can include HPC administration, high-end Linux workstation administration, high-speed networking, parallel filesystem administration, and more.
• The FSL System Administration Team is critical in supporting the FSL users in effectively utilizing the systems. The team's day to day tasks include investigating system problems, proactively monitoring system health, and working with FSL lab users to make sure they can support the NASA human spaceflight mission.
• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED:

This position has been posted at multiple levels (must meet minimum level indicated). Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.
• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent certification in a related area.
• Must have 10+ years of recent and related experience.
• 3 years in IT related field.
• 1 year of experience in HPC system administration or managing large HPC clusters.
• Strong knowledge of administering Linux systems, primarily Red Hat and its derivatives, including services, networking, and file systems.
• Strong demonstrated experience with a major configuration management software, including application packaging and installation.
• Demonstrated experience installing, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting large (petabyte scale) high performance parallel and distributed filesystems such as Lustre, GPFS and Ceph.
• Demonstrated problem solving experience.
• Demonstrated task planning, and effective communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience assisting others with IT related issues.

DESIRED:

• Experience with:
  • RedHat-based systems.
  • IT Service Desk Support.
  • Configuration management software (Ansible, Puppet, etc.).
  • Lustre Parallel Filesystems.
  • Ethernet Network Administration.
  • InfiniBand Network Administration.
  • Containerization in a HPC environment using Singularity, Docker, or Podman.
  • Monitoring and alerting.
  • SLURM Job Scheduling.
  • SPACK Package Manager.
  • Log consolidation and monitoring.
  • Git/Gitlab and software development (CI/CD).
  • Experience being a lead for a team of System Administrators.
  • Johnson Space Center campus network.
  • NASA security mechanisms (security plans, POAMs, ATOs, Risk Assessments).

WORK LOCATION:

• This position is located onsite at NASA Johnson Space Center.
• This position offers a 9/80 schedule, every other Friday off.
• This position may require some travel.

BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS REQUIRED:

All Bastion employees must be able to pass a national agency check, some positions require a clearance and will require an extensive background verification/check process.

DRUG AND ALCOHOL SCREENING REQUIRED:

All Bastion employees must be able to pass pre-employment drug screen; some contracts require participation in periodic random drug and alcohol screening programs.

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