Guardant Health is hiring a
Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Guardant Health's HPC team as a strong technical engineer to maintain and grow the HPC infrastructure during its aggressive expansion, working with corporate IT, SQA, and DevOps/SRE teams.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Linux/Unix administration, knowledge of Unix network protocols, TCP/IP network fundamentals, core infrastructure technologies and virtualization
• 2+ years of large-scale data storage and compute clusters (HPC) infrastructure
• 2+ years working in and with on-premise and cloud-based (AWS, Google, IBM and Azure) data-centers
• 2+ years of building software release and ops processes and automation toolset
• 2+ years providing documentation of system administration

Responsibilities

• Assist in managing the HPC interconnect
• Assist in integrating the HPC systems with the bandwidth on-demand system
• Work with the networking infrastructure team to manage and optimize the connectivity to and from the HPC systems and locales
• Help manage multiple HPC clusters and cluster file systems
• Help research, develop and implement the next generation HPC solution
• Troubleshoot the production system stack down to source code level e.g. shell scripts, python and others
• Maintain, monitor, and support the infrastructure environment and/or facilities
• Use and maintain enhanced production monitoring and additional capability
• Support improvements for increased system reliability and performance
• Support multiple systems or applications of medium to high complex (complexity defined by size, technology used, and system feeds and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility
• Support systems at remote locations, including internationally
• Work with offsite consultants to maintain the infrastructure
• Work with vendors to troubleshoot, upgrade and repair systems as needed
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience administering IBM’s General Parallel File System
• Experience administering Grid Engine scheduler
• Experience administering SLURM scheduler
• Experience with using Bright Cluster Manager
• Experience with cloud bursting technologies
• Experience with wide area file systems
• Experience with docker and container technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes, preferably with Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time
• US base salary range for this full-time position is $138,700 to $187,300