HPC Systems Engineer SME

Date Posted:

2024-04-28

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA543: 22270 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.

Nightwing is seeking a candidate with subject matter expertise (SME) an extensive background in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer. The overall responsibility to work within a team of intelligence professionals providing cutting edge engineering in support of the customer's critical mission. The HPC Engineer will be involved in various factors with regards to HPC reverse engineering and knowledge with intrusive engineering for foreign adversary High Performance Computing Systems (HPC) abroad. All of the below is critical to the success of the customer and the NightWing mission at large. The candidate must be willing to work in a fast-paced customer environment supporting high profile operational requirements. This individual will assist the organization with specific knowledge and understanding of testing and integration of systems to support current technical operations. The successful candidate must have experience working within teaming environments across the customers spectrum. In addition, the candidate must also manage partner and stakeholder relationships while operating independently with minimal supervision. Extensive Experience in leading large, successful operations in a highly matrixed compartmented organization

This position requires the applicant to be a U.S. citizen with a TS/SCI w/Poly clearance upon submission of the resume to this position.

Responsibilities:

• Must be willing to travel to vendor sites and the National Labs for conference and or special events.

• Working in secure enclaves and open computing environments on a wide variety of applied areas.

• Conducting task independently and communicate effectively to team members and customer stakeholders.

REQUIRED Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience performed within a complex system with the interest to the U.S. Government and shareholder communities.

• Strong Knowledge and experience with High Performance Computing concepts to include cluster architecture file system, and high-speed infiniBand interconnections, experience in HPC technologies such as parallel/distribution file systems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS) along with HPC along with batch schedule software (e.g., PBSPro, SLURM)

• Knowledge and experience with application/infrastructure deployment and support in one or more of the major cloud environments

• Ability to brief management on progress and findings associated to the mission needs.

• Works closely with operational elements executing specific missions, with a particular reference to building partnerships with operational organizations and teams.

• Strong Linux (PHEL, CentOS) proficiency.

• Experience using the Linux CLI

• Developing scripts using Bash | Python.

• Demonstrated ability to provision and configure HPC environments and components to include job scheduling multi-user login environments, and cluster management software (Bright, OpenHPC, Warewulf, etc.)

• Experience with systems monitoring tools such as Nagios

• Strong understanding and experience with systems automation tools (Ansible, Salt, Puppet)

• Ability to analyze and optimize system performance in high performance computer networks

• Test tools such as Postman, Selenium, Git, Junit, Cypress, Parasoft Selenic, Katabon, Mabo, TestIM, Functionize, Perfacto, TestCraft, Squish, AutonomIQ

• Experience with CI/CD strategies and GIT Source Control system

• Assisting in preparation of documentation and dissemination of research results to the organization

• Experience working with information security and targeting teams to ensure cybersecurity compliance of multi-user systems

• Experience with Nvidia CUDA libraries and GPUs

• Experience with global and parallel file systems, such as BeeGFS

Education:

Bachelor's degree or higher in a STEM discipline {Science, Technology, Engineering, Math} such as Electrical Computer Engineering. Computer Science, Physics, or a similar technical discipline with