System Engineer HPC

at  Cenaero

Cenaero provides expertise and engineering services in multidisciplinary simulation, design, and optimization in the fields of both mechanics (including fluid, structure, thermal, and acoustics) and electro-magnetics, manufacturing of metallic and composite structures as well as in analysis of in-service behavior of complex systems and life prediction. It also provides software through its massively parallel multi-physics platform Argo and its design space exploration and optimization platform Minamo. Cenaero operates the Tier-1 Walloon supercomputing infrastructure, named Lucia, of a capacity close to 4 PFlops on a mixed CPU and GPU architecture.
Cenaero is currently looking for a System Engineer HPC (M/F). This permanent position is available immediately.

In collaboration with the other HPC team members:

• Ensure the day-to-day operations of the Walloon tier-1 supercomputer in order to guarantee an optimal performance, security and availability of the system.
• Monitor computing resources, networking components and storage systems, and report on their usage.
• Operate, configure, tweak and maintain up-to-date the systems and management tools (operating system, job scheduler, system monitoring and deployment tools, storage and network middleware, etc.).
• Maintain and deploy the software packages available to the users.
• Follow up on incidents, diagnose hardware and software issues in collaboration with the vendors, possibly assist vendors replacing defective parts, apply software or firmware updates.
• Engage with vendors for a proactive maintenance of the systems and planning major hardware or software upgrades.
• End-user support ranging from helping researchers onboarding HPC systems and explaining basic usage, to assisting users in troubleshooting software issues and in performance debugging their codes.
• Maintain and improve system and user documentation.
• Remain constantly informed of the evolutions, emerging technologies and best practices in the HPC field.
• Contribute to the drafting of technical specifications for the supply of new equipment through public tenders procedures.