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High-Performance Computing Administrator III - Savannah
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What they do
A Unix Administrator or Engineer installs, configures, and maintains UNIX operating systems operating within a business. Analyzes and resolves problems associated with the operating system's servers, hardware, applications, and software. Detects, diagnoses, and reports UNIX related problems on servers.
$118,793 / year median in Georgia
-21% projected decline
Job Description
High-Performance Computing Administrator III - Savannah
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Savannah, Georgia
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$62.47/hr
Updated 08/31/2026
Job Description
Job Summary
Position Purpose:
Contribute to the creation of the strategic objectives of the High Performance Computing environment in the Advanced Computing Technologies department, as well as develop operational plans, goals, and strategies to best serve the Computational Fluid Dynamics, Simulation, and Modeling Engineering business units. Provide technical oversight and operational support to other members of the team to ensure continued sustained functionality of the HPC environment in accordance with the operational goals and plans. Responsible for the optimum integration of scientific applications to HPC technology and the exploration of new HPC technology to better meet the needs of the business.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Functions:
Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the company's production HPC cluster
Assist end users running applications on the HPC cluster
Provide third level support for end users who experience problems on engineering workstations and remote visualization systems
Manage, maintain, monitor, and control interactive and batch processes, both scheduled and unscheduled (including on-request processing)
Ensure engineering-defined batch processing and backups are completed in the correct sequence and within the established time periods
Suggest improvements to processing capabilities and efficiencies through system tuning and other hardware and software optimizations and improvements
Perform regular monitoring of utilization needs and efficiencies, and reporton tuning initiatives
Perform proactive failure trend analysis and root cause analysis for all system failures
Produce trend reports to highlight production issues and follow predetermined action and escalation procedures when issues are encountered
Monitor, verify, and make appropriate adjustments to support proper application executions
Provide technical solutions that meet performance and processing objectives of the business areas
Perform upgrades that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices
Provide leadership to HPC Administrators during system upgrades and outages
Create thorough upgrade plans that comply with corporate policies and industry best practices
Assist in the introduction of new technologies that can provide greater capabilities, improved productivity and reduce total cost of ownership
Participate in the design of HPC technical solutions
Continuously evaluate efficiency, existing technology effectiveness and interoperability and suggest areas for improvement
Additional Functions:
Maintain technical relationships with multiple hardware and software vendors
Work multiple operational windows as required
Provide on-call support 24x7
Assist in development and implementation of technical, hardware and software standards
Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related curriculum or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
A Masters degree may be used to offset one year of experience requirement; PhD may offset two years of experience.
7 years experience required in HPC or scientific computing environment to include the installation, configuration and maintenance of Redhat Package Manager (RPM)-based Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE).
Other Requirements:
Experience with management of infiniband-based Linux-based HPC clusters, high performance parallel storage, and configuration and management of cluster scheduling software
Experience managing High Performance Computing low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnects
Experience supporting Linux based scientific workstations running visualization applications..
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