Senior Systems Engineer

Samsung SDSA is looking for a Sr. Systems Engineer to support our site in Kokomo, IN. As a Sr. Systems Engineer on the HPC Grid Systems infrastructure team, you will be working on designing and maintaining the next generation HPC Compute Grid for Samsung's low-power mobile chip design EDA engineering team. Primary responsibilities include defining and refining deployment and provisioning processes, designing and implementing performance monitoring, instrumentation and metrics gathering solutions, end-to-end system level testing, evaluating new technologies and providing stability and refinement throughout the entire compute stack.

Responsibilities:

• Automating and improving existing processes
• Improving and refining system and service monitoring
• Executing large-scale system changes using the latest technologies
• Hands-on server/hardware debugging and problem remediation
• Design and support for VLAN environment
• Supporting a virtualized environment
• Implementing solutions to problems of diverse scope in specific areas, including data analysis to identify root cause and contributing factors
• Improving and refining server OS deployments and provisioning processes
• Core refresh, expansion planning and implementation projects
• Documentation, service management, service improvement, service delivery
• Reviewing, improving, and generating documentation for multiple functional areas

Requirements

• Minimum of bachelor's degree in computer science required
• 5+ years of experience required
• Extensive experience and knowledge on provisioning multiple platforms of high performance computing servers including Dell, Cisco, and HPE is required
• Extensive knowledge of building, configuring, and administering production Linux computer systems
• Experience programming in Bash, Perl, Python, or similar scripting languages
• Hands-on experience with CFEngine, Cobbler, PXE, Kickstart, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or similar configuration and automation tools and practices
• Advanced knowledge of networking concepts and practices
• Expert skills with most Linux operating system commands and utilities
• Linux storage administration experience including file systems, LVM and RAID adapters
• Virtualization environments and tools such as VMWare, vCenter, vCenter Orchestrator
• Solid understanding of automated deployments
• Strong understanding of networking technologies (routing, switching, firewalls, iptables, and etc)
• Experience with source code management tools as git
• Experience with high speed interconnects (InfiniBand, 10GigE, 40GigE)
• Experience with scale-out/scale-up NFS file systems; specifically Isilon S, X, NL, HD
• Hands-on experience with performance analysis tools, benchmarks and applications
• Proficient software skills for light programming and scripting, operating system administration, and hardware administration.
• Deep expertise with Linux operating systems including operations in a large scale production environment.
• Deep experience with system and application monitoring, software distribution, patching and maintenance in a Linux environment
• Significant experience with common internet protocols and services including TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SSH, TFTP, LDAP & AD
• Robust troubleshooting and analytical skills

• Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences

Nice to Have:

• Jira, Jira Project Management, Confluence, MediaWiki
• Experience with Apache / Tomcat / other webserver services. Robust troubleshooting and analytical skills

Benefits

Samsung SDSA offers a comprehensive suite of programs to support our employees:

• Top-notch medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage
• Wellness program
• Parental leave
• 401K match and savings plan
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time off
• Additional benefits

Samsung SDS America, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, marital status, genetic information, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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