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# HPC Administrator III

- **Company:** Can-Tech Services
- **Location:** Savannah, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $136,136.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Batch Processing, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Linux, InfiniBand, Linux Distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scientific Computating, High Performance Computing, SUSE Linux, Information Technology, Low Latency
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d159acb9d3a73bef

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related curriculum or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job
 * A Masters degree may be used to offset one year of experience requirement
 * PhD may offset two years of experience
 * 7 years experience required in HPC or scientific computing environment to include the installation, configuration and maintenance of Redhat Package Manager (RPM)-based Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE)

## Description

Contribute to the creation of the strategic objectives of the High Performance Computing environment in the Advanced Computing Technologies department, as well as develop operational plans, goals, and strategies to best serve the Computational Fluid Dynamics, Simulation, and Modeling Engineering business units. Provide technical oversight and operational support to other members of the team to ensure continued sustained functionality of the HPC environment in accordance with the operational goals and plans. Responsible for the optimum integration of scientific applications to HPC technology and the exploration of new HPC technology to better meet the needs of the business., 1. Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations of Gulfstream's production HPC cluster

 2. Assist end users running applications on the HPC cluster
 3. Provide third level support for end users who experience problems on engineering workstations and remote visualization systems
 4. Manage, maintain, monitor, and control interactive and batch processes, both scheduled and unscheduled (including on-request processing)
 5. Ensure engineering-defined batch processing and backups are completed in the correct sequence and within the established time periods
 6. Suggest improvements to processing capabilities and efficiencies through system tuning and other hardware and software optimizations and improvements
 7. Perform regular monitoring of utilization needs and efficiencies, and report on tuning initiatives
 8. Perform proactive failure trend analysis and root cause analysis for all system failures
 9. Produce trend reports to highlight production issues and follow predetermined action and escalation procedures when issues are encountered
 10. Monitor, verify, and make appropriate adjustments to support proper application executions
 11. Provide technical solutions that meet performance and processing objectives of the business areas
 12. Perform upgrades that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices
 13. Provide leadership to HPC Administrators during system upgrades and outages
 14. Create thorough upgrade plans that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices
 15. Assist in the introduction of new technologies that can provide greater capabilities, improved productivity and reduce total cost of ownership
 16. Participate in the design of HPC technical solutions
 17. Continuously evaluate efficiency, existing technology effectiveness and interoperability and suggest areas for improvement
 18. Maintain technical relationships with multiple hardware and software vendors
 19. Work multiple operational windows as required
 20. Provide on-call support 24x7
 21. Assist in development and implementation of technical, hardware and software standards

Other Requirements:

 1. Experience with management of infiniband-based Linux-based HPC clusters, high performance parallel storage, and configuration and management of cluster scheduling software
 2. Experience managing High Performance Computing low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnects
 3. Experience supporting Linux based scientific workstations running visualization applications


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