Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States · Remote Solely
Senior
About Us RCH Solutions is an established and rapidly growing global provider of computational, research, and data science expertise within Life Sciences and Healthcare. At RCH Solutions, our team rallies around a culture…
Skills: HPC Administration, Linux System Administration, Solution Architecture, AWS, GCP
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States · Remote Solely
Senior
About Us RCH Solutions is an established and rapidly growing global provider of computational, research, and data science expertise within Life Sciences and Healthcare. At RCH Solutions, our team rallies around a culture…
Skills: HPC Engineering, Linux System Administration, Solution Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, SLURM
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Full-time
bachelor degree, postgraduate degree
Competitive Salary, Bonus Package, Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance
Posted 49d ago
Apply by Sep 16
~40 hrs/week
Remote in United States
Responsibilities
Design, evolve, and administer HPC platforms and scientific workflows across on-prem and cloud environments. Provide full-stack support including performance tuning, system monitoring, and consultative architecture services for Life Sciences clients.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science and 5+ years of experience in HPC administration and cloud infrastructure. Proficiency in Linux, scheduling software like SLURM, and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible is essential.
Full job description
About Us RCH Solutions is an established and rapidly growing global provider of computational, research, and data science expertise within Life Sciences and Healthcare. At RCH Solutions, our team rallies around a culture crafted for learning and achieving. We’re relentless in our pursuit for innovation and demanding of ourselves to deliver a ground-breaking computing experience for our clients, so that they can deliver life-saving science to humanity.
Core Values At RCH, our Core Values are more than just words—they represent the threads that weave together the fabric of our culture. Used as a guide when interviewing new team members; as a barometer when evaluating our performance as individuals and teams, and even when deciding which customers to work with, RCH’s Values embody the behaviors upon which we measure our success and create a framework for our growth as people and professionals.
Our Core Values:
Embrace Excellence: We strive for best in class delivery of innovation and service.
Be Accountable: Integrity, ownership and accountability are non negotiables.
Adventure Together: We are committed to fostering a culture that embraces continuous improvement.
Succeed as a Team: We believe harnessing the power of a team drives outcomes not achievable by individuals.
Boundaries and Balance: Work-life balance is a core facet of our culture.
If you share in our core values, then we encourage you to continue reading this posting as you may have found a great home for your career.
Job Description RCH Solutions is seeking an HPC Engineertowork closely with customer stakeholders, scientists, and IT professionals to deliver Compute at Scale and support our customer's scientific initiatives. The objectives for this role center on developing, evolving, and administering HPC platforms along with support for Scientific applications, workflows, and other related infrastructure both on-prem and Cloud hosted. Our ideal candidate also has hands on experience with Linux system administration as well as solution architecting and engineering (on-prem and cloud based) and will be instrumental in transforming how IT computing services are leveraged to support our client's growth. This role will involve driving architecture, roadmaps, and execution of projects to establish and operate IT infrastructure best practices for customers.
Responsibilities include full stack support - design and evolution of platforms, application administration, supporting customer workflows, profiling and performance tuning, monitoring and maintenance of scoped systems, platform and systems administration, troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking related issues, solution architecting and hands on engineering (on-prem + Cloud), as well as documentation. You will use your experience in these technologies to provide top of the line consulting services and recommendations to clients. These would be performed as part of customer Research or Analytics initiatives as well as in a consultative, advisory, or customer support manner.
Specific focuses and responsibilities include:
Collaborating with cross-discipline team members and customers to deliver HPC and peripheral Compute at Scale services.
Thorough understanding of related industry best practices.
Supporting internal and customer Architecture and Design efforts.
Supporting customers with their workflow pipelines (advisory and hands-on).
Comprehensively documenting new and existing computational assets.
Maintaining the flexibility to pivot as engagement scopes may evolve.
Support for AWS & GCP Cloud applications, migrations, and modernization.
CloudOps / IaC for on-going platform management.
Setup and configuration of AWS & GCP Cloud infrastructure for new platform builds.
Ensuring system compliance with company security standards and applicable regulatory requirements.
Transition support for modernized services to operational teams.
Provide engineering level troubleshooting and services restoration for operational issues as they arise on supported platforms.
Provide training/mentorship for junior level team members.
Escalation point on multiple engagements to ensure resolution
Essential Qualifications
A bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
5+ years of experience administering HPC clusters and systems.
Experience with SLURM and Grid Engine scheduling software preferred.
5+ years of professional experience in Solution Architecture or Cloud Infrastructure Deployment and support.
5+ years professional experience developing or administering compute solutions for Scientific / Research IT domains, Life Sciences being preferred.
Experience with POSIT products (Package Manager, Connect, Workbench) either in an end-user or administrator capacity.
Experience developing scientific workflows on HPC systems using Nextflow
Extensive command-line system administration experience:
User and group management
Advanced knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, NFS, SMB
Building applications from source code, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting application-level Linux and scientific software in line with industry best practices.
Installation of Linux operating system and fine tuning
Familiarity with leveraging and maintaining Linux package management systems
Intermediate OS level networking knowledge.
Experience using with scripting tools, automation tools, and configuration management tools
Ansible, Terraform and Cloud Formation experience preferred
Experience administering and integrating Scientific / Research applications.
Strong time-management skills; able to complete projects in a timely manner, plan and prioritize tasks while keeping leadership and stakeholders updated regularly on status.
Excellent communication skills, including preparation of written documentation for IT colleagues and end users.
Proactive thinking skills to identify potential issues and solution options prior to incidents occurring.
Extreme attention to detail is needed to interface with multi different clients simultaneously.
Ability to understand and analyze complex technical problems and situations.
Candidates must be a passionate engineer with a strong vision and a desire to stay on top of trends in the Scientific Computing sector.
Ability to work independently or with a team
Ability to take a project from start to finish with minimal supervision
Preferred Qualifications RCH provides services and solutions for the unique challenges of Life Sciences advanced computing, and leverages teams with cross-functional IT skills to meet these challenges. The ideal candidates for this role will have experience working with cross-functional IT (Public Cloud skills being a plus) and sciences skillsets.
Experience with Python, R, or other related data science programming languages.
Experience working with databases and/or supporting.
Experience managing large amounts of data effectively.
Experience working with AI/ML technologies.
Experience with containerizing compute workload via Docker or Singularity.
Experience with Nvidia DGX systems.
Additional information Great talent should benefit from a great work environment. If you join our team, you’ll have access to:
A competitive salary and bonus package based on experience
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Company-provided Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
Company-sponsored 401(k) Plan
Company-provided continuing education benefit
Team-focused culture and unlimited opportunity for advancement
This is a fully remote position and the candidate will be required to work on an East Coast (US) schedule.
Role is only open to applicants not needing sponsorship now or in the future, no third parties please.
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Related keywords
HPCCompute at ScaleLife SciencesHealthcareLinuxAWSGCPSLURMGrid EnginePOSITNextflowActive DirectoryDNSDHCPLDAPNFS
RCH Solutions (RCH), now part of the MIGx and athagoras group, is a global provider of computational science expertise, helping Life Sciences and Healthcare companies of all sizes clear the path to discovery. For more than 30 years, RCH has provided focused experience and unmatched specialization designing and deploying cross-functional IT strategies, supporting R&D infrastructure, and offering workflow best practices that solve enterprise and scientific computing challenges.
Offices: 992 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 920, Wayne, PA 19087, US · Boston, MA, US · San Diego, CA, US · San Francisco, CA, US · Brussels, Belgium, BE
RCH Solutions (RCH), now part of the MIGx and athagoras group, is a global provider of computational science expertise, helping Life Sciences and Healthcare companies of all sizes clear the path to discovery. For more than 30 years, RCH has provided focused experience and unmatched specialization designing and deploying cross-functional IT strategies, supporting R&D infrastructure, and offering workflow best practices that solve enterprise and scientific computing challenges.
Offices: 992 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 920, Wayne, PA 19087, US · Boston, MA, US · San Diego, CA, US · San Francisco, CA, US · Brussels, Belgium, BE
