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SLB · 1 day ago

System Engineer

Houston, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

SLB is a global leader in technology and services for the energy industry. They are seeking a System Engineer for their Houston Systems team to manage a hybrid on-premises and cloud HPC environment supporting proprietary software and various production groups. The role involves extensive responsibilities in systems administration, cloud provisioning, and ensuring compliance with SLB IT deployment standards.

Computer Software

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a large HPC enterprise environment comprising thousands of servers, large storage solutions, tape and tape automation

Proficient in the installation, configuration and management of Linux based operating systems, preferably using RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux

Experience with IBM’s xCAT distributed computing management software

Experience with installation and maintenance of computer hardware including servers, tape drives, robotic tape libraries, GPGPU, SSD, disk arrays

Experience with containerization

Knowledge of networking and datacenter technologies, switching, routing, high-availability, LAN / WAN / WLAN topologies and system configuration for Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fiber Channel SAN

Experience with HPC Storage Solutions, for example configuration and operation of HPE ClusterStor systems, NetApp, Dell Isilon, and Pure Storage

Ability to write and troubleshoot Bourne, Bash and C Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby and MRTG scripts

Experience with PostgreSQL and database installation and support

Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Azure public clouds. Able to provision and manage instances, build images, write installation scripts

Experience with configuration tools like Ansible and Terraform

Experience with backup and recovery tools, IBM Spectrum, Dell Networker

Good knowledge of Linux security, including configuration of endpoint security tools

Ability to evaluate HPC system environments and make recommendations for improvement in performance and manageability

Ability to investigate, debug and diagnose system level issues

Conform to local change management philosophies, including full testing on non-production systems, prior to production deployment

Effectively communicate all change activities to all affected parties including a clear description of the change, related service outages and possible effects on the different environments we support

Ensure SLB IT deployment standards are maintained, with verification through reporting systems

Meet KPO requirements for InTouch support processing, including full documentation of problem resolution, creation of knowledge content and best practice items

Show a good understanding of computer equipment, and its care and maintenance

Work with other internal support groups, systems, networking, programming, desktop support, computer operations, and facilities as required to complete administration functions

Work with a variety of vendors in technical environments and in the reporting and investigation of system problems

Provide a written weekly status report to the team manager and be prepared to present and discuss this with the team at a weekly status meeting

Prepared to work outside of normal hours as system maintenance often must be performed outside of prime time; provide 24/7 support to computer operations; work with other remote support locations, for example Kuala Lumpur, backing follow the sun support

Participate in support on-call schedule and in weekend power outages, normally two per year and in emergency data center activities

Peer-review all major projects, as part of the normal deployment philosophy

Ensure compliance with all quality assurance, best practice procedures and QHSE requirements, as defined by job position

Qualification

HPC environment experienceLinux operating systemsIBM xCAT softwareContainerizationNetworking technologiesHPC Storage SolutionsScripting languagesPostgreSQL supportGoogle Cloud PlatformConfiguration toolsBackupRecovery toolsLinux securitySystem debuggingCommunication skillsTeam collaborationDocumentation skills

Required

A minimum of 5 years' experience working in a large HPC enterprise environment comprising thousands of servers, large storage solutions, tape and tape automation

Proficient in the installation, configuration and management of Linux based operating systems, preferably using RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux

Experience with IBM's xCAT distributed computing management software