Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer - Analysis Group, Inc.
Boston, MA 02199
About the Job
Make an impact at Analysis Group, where we provide our clients with thoughtful, pragmatic solutions to their most challenging business and litigation problems. Analysis Group is one of the largest private economics consulting firms, with more than 1,200 professionals across 14 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1981, we have provided expertise in economics, finance, health care analytics, and strategy to top law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, and government agencies worldwide. Our internal experts, together with our network of affiliated experts from academia, industry, and government, offer our clients exceptional breadth and depth of expertise.
The role is responsible for the operation and maintenance of a Linux clustered computing environment, the Linux operating system, and general infrastructure activities. The administrator ensures that all systems are operating efficiently, devices are current, monitors, documents and reports on system operation, including change management and performance statistics.
Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:
- Maintain, tune and manage analytical computing environment for statisticians
- Optimize systems and infrastructure performance with parallelization technologies
- Manage access authentication including PAM, LDAP integration and single sign-on
- Design and develop scripts for system administration, automating tasks, monitoring and usage reporting
- Troubleshoots, isolates and resolves application, systems and other technical problems (hardware, software, network)
- Develops and implements backup and recovery programs
- Researches, deploys and manages general infrastructure, including development of policies and procedures
- Migrates data from heterogeneous environments to Linux or cloud
- Monitor performance, troubleshoot problem areas and provide statistics and reports
- Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, processes, change management, inventory and service records
- Ensure continuous network connectivity of all equipment
- Conduct research and report on products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the technology industry
- 24x7 On-call rotation, troubleshoot/resolve remotely or onsite as necessary
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required. Degree in computer science or electrical engineering preferred
- Minimum of 5 years of substantive relevant experience required
- An ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience as a Hands-on Linux Systems Administrator in a research or production setting
- Experience managing SAS grid, Python, R and Stata environments
- Experience with SLURM, Platform LSF or other job schedulers
- Experience with Bright Cluster Manager is highly desired
- Experience with Ansible, Puppet or other configuration management tool is highly desired
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Singularity) is highly desired
- Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure) is highly desired
- Proficiency with remote access technologies and tools such as RDP, SSH and emulation software
- Experience with integrating Linux in Microsoft Windows client environment
- Experience with Clusters and Cluster File Systems using technologies such as GPFS, BeeGFS or GFS2 or other clustered file systems
- Experience with TCP/IP troubleshooting, including UDP and multicast
- Experience with Web Application Servers and general practices for troubleshooting issues (log locations and general contents)
- Experience with interpreted or scripting language (Perl, Python, Bash)
- Experience with TSM and Git is highly desired
- Experience with automating OS and application installations is highly desired
- Proven experience working independently
- Technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards
- Excellent hardware troubleshooting experience
- Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Strong customer service orientation
- Experience working in a collaborative environment
- An inclusive and growth-oriented mindset, strong interpersonal skills, and an ability to work across functions.
- To the extent permitted by applicable law, eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the United States, without sponsorship or restriction, now and in the future.
Analysis Group embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a deep and meaningful way. We are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
We provide equal access and opportunities regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, religion, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical ability or disability, medical condition, genetic information, citizenship status, socioeconomic status, veteran and military status, or membership in any other class protected under applicable law. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
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