Linux Administrator

05 Nov 2024

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Title: Linux Administrator

Duration: 06 months +

Location: North Chicago, Illinois, 60085

Rate: $70/hr on W2

Responsibilities & DutiesThis position supports and administers on-premises Linux resources, including HPC Linux clusters and scientific Linux desktops.

Specific responsibilities include:Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, Operating System and application issues in HPC and desktop environments
  • Work with systems staff to enhance our Configuration Management infrastructure
  • Evaluate performance impacts of planned operating system changes
  • Update and expand existing systems monitoring capabilities
  • Develop automation tools for systems administration
  • Maintain account management procedures to support growing number of researchers and scientists
  • Provide technical support to researchers using HPC resources, troubleshoot problems and develop
  • appropriate computational strategies
  • Consult and collaborate with scientist co-workers to determine best system configurations for applications

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
  • Minimum of 5 years RedHat, CentOS and/or Ubuntu Linux system administration experience
  • Minimum of 3 years scripting experience with Bash, Perl or Python
  • Minimum 3 years HPC Linux cluster administration, including job queueing and resource
  • management, parallel filesystems and network management
  • Prior experience with configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet
  • Prior experience with physical Linux hardware

    Preferred
  • Experience with HPC job queueing systems such as SLURM or PBS
  • Experience with HPC management software such as Bright Cluster Manager
  • Experience managing parallel and cluster file systems such as NFS, BeeGFS, GPFS, Weka, or Lustre
  • Network management experience especially Infiniband
  • Experience with GPU compute in HPC and desktop environments
  • Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Singularity

  • ID: #22211917
  • State: Illinois Waukegan 60085 Waukegan USA
  • City: Waukegan
  • Salary: $65 - $70
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-05
  • Deadline: 2021-12-06
  • Category: Et cetera