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# Junior Computer Operator - Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

- **Company:** Martek Global Services
- **Location:** Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $37,440.0 - $41,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** CentOS, Control Panels, Linux, Microprocessors, Electronic Data Processing, InfiniBand, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Storage Devices, SC Clearance, Slurm
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=cc524cc9f697e901

## About the Role

* Candidate must possess a Secret Clearance or ability to obtain one High School Diploma with 4 years' experience; OR associates degree with 2 years' experience in a related field; OR a Bachelors degree (or higher) in a related field with no experience

Preferred experience & Skills

Preferred experience in various HPC Systems and various HPC Technologies.

 * Cray/Cray Ex, IBM, SGI, Penguin, or customer architecture
 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Linux variants operating systems (OS)
 * InfiniBand (IB), Intel Omni-Path interconnects
 * Portable Batch System (PBS), Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), or IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility (LSF) schedulers
 * Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, or ARM CPUs

## Description

The Junior Computer Operator will monitor and operate high performance computers and peripheral electronic data processing equipment to process scientific, engineering, or other data according to operating instructions. Additional duties include:

 * Continuously monitors and responds to operating and error messages of equipment storage devices, printers and control panels
 * Sets up and runs diagnostic test and reacts appropriately to the messages and reports errors or machine malfunctions as required
 * May perform work incidental to machine operations such as maintaining production records, replenishing specified stock items, and distributing output materials
 * May work with multiple systems
 * Additional duties as assigned


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