Linux Server/NVidia GPU Engineer
Company: Leidos
Location: Silver Spring
Posted on: May 25, 2023
Job Description:
Description At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through
the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to
our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our
communities, and operate sustainable practices. Everything we do is
built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our
people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide
the way we do business. Employees enjoy career enrichment
opportunities available through mobility and development and
experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and
talented colleagues and customers. Your most important work is
ahead.
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If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive,
keep reading!
Leidos is looking to fill a Linux Server/NVidia GPU Engineer
position within the Analysis Solutions Division (ASD) to support
the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC). This role requires
an individual that has technical experience with administering
Nvidia DGX1 and A100 servers within a within a physical and virtual
environment. -This individual should be detail oriented in order to
capture customer inquiries appropriately. This role is responsible
for interacting with administrators to handle service inquiries and
problems. Duties include examining customer problems and
implementing appropriate corrective action to initiate a repair or
return to service. -This role analyzes recurring problems and
initiates solutions for preventing reoccurrence and analyzes
existing infrastructure for tuning/performance enhancements. The
individual will provide systems and software operations and
maintenance support in a large, multi-enclave enterprise
environment. -This individual will work in a team environment to
ensure mission needs are met and ensure functionality of
capabilities of customers. Individuals in this role may be required
to perform technical software configuration, rebooting, and other
remedial actions on customer servers. -The Customer utilizes an
Agile Framework to plan and successfully complete all initiatives.
-The work location is in Bethesda at the Intelligence Community
Campus.Primary Responsibilities
- Review C&A documentation providing feedback on completeness
and compliance of its content
- Perform system installation, configuration maintenance, account
maintenance, signature maintenance, patch management, and
troubleshooting of operational IA and CND systems
- Operates with appreciable latitude in developing engineering
methodology and presenting solutions to problems. -
- Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where
applicable.
- Responsible for implementing, operating, and maintaining
physical and virtual server hardware and systems software.
- Monitor resource management system (SLURM) to keep resource
allocation efficient and aligned with organizational
priorities
- Automate configuration management, software updates, and
maintenance of system availability using modern DevOps tools
(Ansible, Salt, Gitlab, etc.)
- Plan and maintain new systems that support the NVIDIA Software
stack
- Work directly with developers and hardware architects to debug
issues, identify new requirements, and improve workflows
- Actively communicate with users and management regarding
resource planning and allocation
- Provide technical support, monitoring, and engineering of Linux
systems, Nvidia DGX1 and A100 servers within a physical and virtual
environment. -
- Provide support for the implementation, troubleshooting and
maintenance of IT systems. Rapidly distinguish isolated user
problems from enterprise-wide application/system problems. -
- Maintain scripts, security updates, patches, and configurations
for the proper functioning of servers.
- Coordinate with customers and stakeholders to collect data,
conduct analysis, develop, and implement solutions associated with
incident tickets and requirements. -
- Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support
effective and efficient operations -
- Develop solutions to complex technical issues. -
- Provide documentation and follow-up reports (technical
findings, feedback, resolution steps taken) for Root Cause
analysis, engineering technical assessment and process improvement
initiatives. -
- Support customer requirements in a 24/7/365 environment and be
able to provide on-call support during outages occurring after
hours; may involve shift work. -
- Update operations and monitoring documentation for 24/7/365
Operations Watch personnel. -Basic Qualifications
- Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering
field. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of
a degree -
- 10+ years of relevant systems engineering experience
- Experience supervising and/or mentoring junior staff
- 2 years of Unix experience, including Red Hat/CentOS (or
derivative) and Ubuntu -
- System security engineering expertise in one or more of the
following: system security design process; engineering life cycle;
information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial
off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf cryptography;
identification; authentication; and authorization; system
integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency
planning; incident handling; configuration control; change
management; auditing; certification and accreditation process;
principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation,
availability, and access control); and security testing
- Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work
assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature requiring
originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks.
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- Hands on experience identifying server hardware failures,
including hard drives and memory
- Experience with cluster configuration management tools such as
Ansible, Salt
- Strong knowledge of DNS, NFS, LDAP, and DHCP services
- Experience with shell scripting and/or Python to automate
repetitive administration tasks
- Background in Linux server setup, deployment and maintenance
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- Experience with hardening Linux environments -
- Experience with system administration and engineering of server
operating systems such as Linux (CentOS, RHEL, or Ubuntu) -
- Experience troubleshooting issues in a growing environment
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- Experience with log reviews, incident analysis, and
identification of issue trends -
- Experience with server patch management methodologies -
- Time management skills with the ability to work within an IT
Service Management/ticketing system independently -
- Ability to triage and properly classify incidents and
prioritize work efforts accordingly -
- Strong oral and written communications skills -
- Experience establishing goals and plans that meet project
objectives -
- Track record of working effectively within a team, and support
to peers toward improved processes and results -
- Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II
certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security,
GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE)
certification) -Clearance
- TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required
- US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the government
contracts we support.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with container technologies (Docker,
Kubernetes)
- Experience with Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring
- Knowledge of distributed resource scheduling systems [Slurm
(preferred), LSF, etc.]
- Familiarity with CUDA and managing GPU-accelerated computing
systems
- Basic knowledge of deep learning frameworks and
algorithms#NMECDTPPay Range:Pay Range $118,300.00 - $182,000.00 -
$245,700.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general
guideline only -and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but
are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education,
experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal
equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement
(if any), or other law.
Keywords: Leidos, Silver Spring , Linux Server/NVidia GPU Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Silver Spring, Maryland
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