Responsibilities

The Technical Expert (TE) provides leadership in developing cutting-edge solutions, strategies, and protocols for the HPC Infrastructure environment, handling complex challenges, leading research and development initiatives, architecting and designing initiatives, and offering expert consultations to Program Managers and IT staff. They are responsible for maintaining technical working aids, creating and developing standard operating procedures, conducting technical exchanges, and leading brown bag sessions, and setting educational performance standards for the technical team. The role also involves configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced level troubleshooting and support of high performance filesystems such as XFS, GPFS and Lustre, advanced level troubleshooting and support of HPC farm systems and associated applications such as Nagios, xcat, failover software, and compilers, working knowledge of HPC MPP systems, configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced level troubleshooting of RedHat and SuSe operating systems, and configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced level troubleshooting of distributed computing tools such as RES, LSF and SLURM.