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Introduction

GREAT OPPORTUNITY WITH IBM FEDERAL CONSULTING

Your role and responsibilities

The Lead System Architect shall possess extensive, relevant experience in the design, installation, integration, testing, and acceptance of newly deployed High-Performance Computing systems and extensive, relevant experience in the operations, maintenance, and enhancement (i.e., expansions, refreshes, upgrades, and tenant fit-ups) of existing HPC systems. The System Architect is a technical leader responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation, and optimization of an HPC system to meet specific computational requirements.

This position requires periodic travel and some evenings, weekends, and/or holidays.

Job may require after-hours response to emergency issues.
Periodically scheduled on-call may require after-hours response for technical emergencies not explicitly related to assigned job responsibilities

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise

Minimum of five years’ experience in Linux systems administration.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline with 2+ years of systems engineering; or 5 years’ experience in HPC architecture.
Hands-on architecture design experience with HPC to include storage, file system, InfiniBand, security, authentication, and compute architecture with 5 years’ experience.
Knowledge of HPC hardware architectures, including processors, memory subsystems, network fabrics, and interconnects with 5 years’ experience

US Citizenship is required. 

Public Trust required but can obtain after being hired.  

Preferred technical and professional experience

Familiarity with HPC software stack components like compilers, runtime systems, job schedulers, and scientific libraries with 5 years’ experience
Good understanding of storage administration and optimization, such as performing upgrades and defining RAID configurations with 5 years’ experience
Experience with system administration and cluster management tools (e.g., LSF, Slurm, PBS)
Experience with distributed file systems (Lustre, Ceph, GPFS) with 5 years’ experience

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

  • Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
  • Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
  • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
  • Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
  • Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences


We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.


This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

US Citizenship Required.