Geospatial HPC Systems Administrator / Greensboro, NC

Job Description

COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID-19 variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.
To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Lockheed Martin employees including new hires. All current and newly hired employees are required to follow onsite safety measures based upon the COVID-19 Community Level at the specific work location.
Description:Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is seeking a highly motivated senior systems administrator to maintain operation of multi-user / multi-site High Performance Compute (HPC) geospatial systems. As part of Lockheed Martin’s Applied Research Geospatial Technology team, the successful candidate will provide design recommendations, documentation, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of HPC systems across various customer environments, working within an integrated product team (IPT) to deliver cutting-edge geospatial solutions to government and commercial customers. The role requires account administration, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system-wide software and management of mass storage. The position is in Greensboro, NC and requires full-time on-site presence.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Manage team’s compute environment including HPC
• Support design, deployment, and maintenance of customer compute architectures
• Manage corporate intranet policy and compliance implementations
• Support capital planning and develop hardware refresh roadmap
Basic Qualifications:
• B.S. in Computer Science, or related degree
• Experience in systems administration and support of client-server based IT architectures (professional certification may substitute as one year experience)
• Experience with RAID storage technologies
• Familiarity with automated approaches to configuring and maintaining systems
• Experience with network attached storage systems
• Experience with rack mounting hardware and wiring
• Must be capable of lifting equipment up to 50lbs
• Must be able to obtain a security clearance
• Good organization skills; able to balance and prioritize daily tasks
• Takes ownership of results
• Strong communication skills
Desired Skills:
• Extensive experience as a Linux administrator
• Extensive experience with Windows Server (AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy)
• Experience with parallel systems, parallel processing, parallel file systems
• Proficiency in shell scripting with languages such as Python, Perl, Korn, Bourne/Bash, Powershell
• Familiarity with High Performance Computing (HPC) environment and related technologies
• Familiarity with power and cooling requirements for server room equipment