Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · 1 month ago
Lead HPC Architect Cybersecurity - High Performance & Computational Data Ecosystem
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$120K/yr - $180K/yr
10+ years expIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is dedicated to accelerating scientific discovery through advanced computing and data ecosystems. The Lead HPC Architect will be responsible for managing the cybersecurity infrastructure of a cutting-edge high-performance computing system, ensuring its resilience and compliance while collaborating with researchers and clinicians.
Hospital & Health Care
Hiring Manager
Sandra Sterthous, SHRM-CP
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and manage all cybersecurity operations within the HPC environment, ensuring alignment with industry standards (NIST, ISO, GDPR, HIPAA, CMMC, NYC Cyber Command, etc.)
Implement best practices for data security, including but not limited to encryption (at rest, in transit, and in use), audit logging, access control, authentication control, configuration managements, secure enclaves, and confidential computing
Perform full-spectrum HPC system administration: installation, monitoring, maintenance, usage reporting, troubleshooting, backup and performance tuning across HPC applications, web service, database, job scheduler, networking, storage, computes, and hardware to optimize workload efficiency
Lead resolution of complex cybersecurity and system issues; provide mentorship and technical guidance to team members
Ensure that all designs and implementations meet cybersecurity, performance, scalability, and reliability goals. Ensure that the design and operation of the HPC ecosystem is productive for research
Lead the integration of HPC resources with laboratory equipment for data ingestion aligned with all regulatory such as genomic sequencers, microscopy, clinical system etc
Develop, review and maintain security policies, risk assessments, and compliance documentation accurately and efficiently
Collaborate with institutional IT, compliance, and research teams to ensure all regulatory, Sinai Policy and operational alignment
Design and implement hybrid and cloud-integrated HPC solutions using on-premise and public cloud resources
Partner with other peers regionally, nationally and internationally to discover, propose and deploy a world-class research infrastructure for Mount Sinai
Stay current with emerging HPC, cloud, and cybersecurity technologies to keep the organization’s infrastructure up-to-date
Work collaboratively, effectively and productively with other team members within the group and across Mount Sinai
Provide after-hours support as needed
Perform other duties as assigned or requested
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or another scientific field. Master's or PhD preferred
10 years of progressive HPC system administration experience with Enterprise Linux releases including RedHat/CentOS/Rocky Systems, and batch cluster environment
Experience with all aspects of high-throughput HPC including schedulers (LSF or Slurm), networking (Infiniband/Gigabit Ethernet), parallel file systems and storage, configuration management systems (xCAT, Puppet and/or Ansible), etc
Proficient in cybersecurity processes, posture, regulations, approaches, protocols, firewalls, data protection in a regulated environment (e.g. finance, healthcare)
In-depth knowledge HIPAA, NIST, FISMA, GDPR and related compliance standards, with prove experience building and maintaining compliant HPC system
Experience with secure enclaves and confidential computing
Proven ability to provide mentorship and technical leadership to team members
Proven ability to lead complex projects to completion in collaborative, interdisciplinary settings with minimum guidance
Excellent analytical ability and troubleshooting skills
Excellent communication, documentation, collaboration and interpersonal skills. Must be a team player and customer focused
Scripting and programming experience
Preferred
Proficient with cloud services, orchestration tools, openshift/Kubernetes cost optimization and hybrid HPC architectures
Experience with Azure, AWS or Google cloud services
Experience with LSF job scheduler and GPFS Spectrum Scale
Experience in a healthcare environment
Experience in a research environment is highly preferred
Experience with software that enables privacy-preserving linking of PHI
Experience with Globus data transfer
Experience with Web service, SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL, MariaDB and other database technologies
Company
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is an international leader in medical and scientific training, biomedical research, and patient care.
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