Assoc. Dir. DDIT IES - HPC Infrastructure Sr. Engineer

<p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Description Summary</b></p>The HPC Infrastructure Services (Senior) Engineer executes and ensures service deployments and management to enable modern delivery flows of High-Performance Computing solutions.<p style="text-align:inherit"><br /> </p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Description</b></p><p>Job Description</p><p><b>Major accountabilities: </b></p><ul><li>High Performance Computing (HPC) Specialist for Novartis Core Infrastructure Services team performs the operational health deployment and lifecycle of HPC technology</li><li>Designs innovative solutions utilizing projects and qualification frameworks to run and optimize our complex infrastructures.</li><li>Act as technical and organizational escalation point during major and critical incidents.</li><li>Responsible to track suppliers and partner for effective and efficient delivery of projects</li><li>Contributes to service / platform strategy development</li></ul><p></p><p>Commitment to Diversity &amp; Inclusion: We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve.</p><p></p><p><b>What you’ll bring to the role</b></p><ul><li>6&#43; years’ IT experience, of which at least 3 in an HPC/scientific computing environment</li><li>Associate&#39;s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent industry experience</li><li>Experience designing and building infrastructure within a public cloud platform (e.g. AWS, GCP or Azure) as they relate to HPC workloads</li><li>Hands-on experience with system administrative task in Linux environment, and fluency in scripting (shell scripting in bash required, Python knowledge would be advantageous)</li><li>Can build software from sources including knowledge of build systems (e.g. Make, CMake...)</li><li>Extensive knowledge of one or more HPC scheduling mechanisms (e.g. Grid Engine, Slurm, LSF... etc.)</li><li>Extensive knowledge of one or more HPC cluster management software packages (e.g. Bright Cluster Manager / Base Command Manager, xCat, OpenHPC… etc.)</li><li>Solid knowledge of computer architectures and multi-threaded/parallel processing applications</li><li>Hands-on knowledge of network- and distributed filesystems (e.g. NFS, GPFS, Gluster, BeeGFS, Lustre or other parallel file systems, etc.)</li><li>Worked in environments with high speed / low latency network (e.g. InfiniBand)</li><li>Strong knowledge of Unix systems performance tuning</li><li>Experience with shared memory and/or GPU and/or distributed memory computation jobs</li><li>Working knowledge of DevOps (e.g. Ansible, Chef, CICD etc.) tools and practices</li><li>Desired: experience setting up, maintaining, and tuning infrastructure for AI/ML workloads</li><li>Desired: experience with HPC infrastructure supporting a scientific / research / pharmaceutical / bioinformatics / cheminformatics environment</li><li>Exceptional service orientation, excellent problem-solving abilities, keen attention to detail.</li><li>Fluent English speaker</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:inherit"><br /> </p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Skills Desired</b></p>Communication Skills, IT Infrastructures, IT Operations, IT Service Management, Problem Solving Skills, System Integration, Vendor Management