Senior Systems Administration Engineer

Job Description Summary

As a member of the GE Aerospace Digital Technology organization aligned to the Technology & Operations High Performance Computing as a Service (HPCaaS) team, this role will focus on providing excellent service to Engineering stakeholders while operating a quality production simulation engineering infrastructure environment to deliver critical outcomes.

You will work with a global team of like-minded HPC professionals to ensure the stable, reliable performance of our products and services while inspiring evolution and continuous improvement in how we build, operate, monitor, maintain and secure our infrastructure for a globally consistent user experience. You will drive excellence while identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, simplification, automation and global consistency in HPCaaS software, applications and tools.

Role Overview:

In this role, you will:

• Work collaboratively with a globally diverse team of employees and contractors through FLIGHT DECK and with our SQDC mindset to deliver on established business priorities and commitments.
• Provide excellent global customer/stakeholder support in a collaborative, consultative style with a constant focus on operational efficiency.
• Install, configure, manage, secure, run and support large scale Linux-based clusters and related Lustre/NAS storage, visualization and data management services.
• Support and maintain a broad spectrum of engineering software packages aligned to technical disciplines such as finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics and lifing analytics or equivalent.
• Build, manage and execute complex infrastructure management and operational projects (i.e. installation, upgrades, andmigration/decommission.)
• Embrace change and promote the identification of service improvement opportunities across the globalteam while applying robust change management processes.
• Contribute to evolving current legacy service and solution offerings into next generation capabilities aligned to new and emerging business needs.
• Identify opportunities to drive the automation of repeatable processes, efficiency and to remove non-value added tasks and overhead from team activities.
• Drive effective written and spoken communication within the team and externally to stakeholders.
• Partner with leadership and Architects to ensure that service quality meets and exceeds stakeholder expectations.

Ideal candidate:

Should have experience in complex enterprise-class High Performance Computing (HPC)

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or in STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.)
• Significant professional experience in working with complex enterprise-class High Performance Computing (HPC) and/or Simulation Based Engineering and Science (SBES) systems.
• Demonstrable and quantifiable experience providing technical HPC operational support as well as building, operating and managing distributed end-to-end technical computing and Linux-based cluster solutions (compute, storage, visualization.)
• Willingness to work out of an office located in Bangalore, India with occasional weekend and off-hours availability required to execute on projects and respond to critical operational needs.

Desired Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

• Demonstrated ability to design, develop and maintain creative solutions to complex software, engineering toolchain and application problems.
• Mission critical systems management experience with enterprise-class compute, storage, network, virtualization and cloud service technologies.
• Experience working directly with, administering, maintaining and securing global Linux compute clusters (RHEL 7.x/8.x), Lustre-based storage services, related VMware visualization (ESXi and vCenter) and data management systems.
• Experience working directly with cloud providers/infrastructure (Amazon, Microsoft, etc.), database technologies, operating systems (Windows, Linux) and orchestration tools (Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience implementing, scaling, managing and administering infrastructure monitoring and management tools (i.e. NAGIOS, Splunk, HP Openview, Oracle Enterprise Manager, OpsView or equivalent.)
• Experience working with emerging HPC GPU technologies, Machine Learning frameworks, Slurm, Hadoop/Big Data frameworks, Docker/Singularity containerization, etc.
• Experience with engineering software aligned to finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics and lifing analytics or equivalent.
• Experience delivering complex technical projects focused on infrastructure management and operations.

Business Acumen:

• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interact at all levels of the organization and across cultural, geographic and business boundaries.
• Strong understanding of software governance and compliance/regulatory requirements.

Leadership:

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to build effective processes while applying FLIGHT DECK tools, mindset and methodology.
• Relentless drive and desire for continuous improvement.Challenges the status quo and pursues opportunities to drive service evolution, quality and efficiency while removing waste and non-value added work from team activities.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
• Articulates the story; uses two-way communication and influences outcomes and on-going results.
• Strong oral and written communication skills including executive level presentation skills.
• Self-motivated.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver on commitments to stakeholders.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker.

Personal Attributes:

• Demonstrated interpersonal and global teaming abilities with ability to build consensus and navigate through debate, conflict and constructive disagreement.
• Works well in a fast paced, agile, adaptive environment.
• Wiling to adapt to change, and learn new tools, technologies and processes as needed.
• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analytical skills and best practices.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex, competing priorities simultaneously.