anzha's Journal: We're hiring!!!

We have an opening. I'm riding herd on the getting the position filled. I'm cutting and pasting the job listing here. You really need to apply through here. Search by division and go to NERSC.

Benefits are good. The leave (vacation & sick leave) are excellent. The pay is nice. The environment ROCKS. The work itself is rather good. We have our biases though in what to expect from a person. If you've done the .com hop, then, unless you only left jobs because companies folded, we're not likely to pick you up unless you're all that. This is filesystem development work. It's awesome stuff. Read on. If you want to know more, post questions.

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Job Details

Advanced Systems Technologist
Requisition Number: 016032
Division: NERSC
Department: HPC Access Department
Date Opened: 05/28/2003

KEY SKILLS: Clustering techniques, file systems, mass storage, performance evaluation or benchmarking experience, high performance computing, C or C++.

POSITION SUMMARY: The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab is one of the nation's most powerful unclassified computing resources and is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC currently has an opening for an Advanced Systems Analyst. Working as a member of the Advanced Systems Group the incumbent will assist in conducting path finding, charting and vetting of advanced system technologies (OS, File System, Storage, Network and Resource management) for NERSC.

DUTIES: Essential -- The successful candidate will participate in a multi-year project to evaluate and deploy unified parallel file system technology for a heterogeneous multi-platform, multi-OS high performance production environment. This project will involve a variety of activities, including evaluation and testing, hardware and software architecting, integration of technologies, design and development, performance evaluation and tuning, and interaction and collaboration with vendors, other computer centers and researchers. Other projects may include evaluation of commodity clusters for production high-performance capability workloads, performance testing and integration of NERSC's latest high performance computing resource (6600 processor IBM RS/6000 SP), and participation in a NERSC-wide team for the acquisition of the next NERSC high performance resource. Essential for the Computer Engineer III -- The incumbent will be expected to take a lead role in the activity and take responsibility for complex problems and bringing them to successful resolution. Essential for IV -- In addition to the Computer Systems Engineer III duties, the Computer Systems Engineer IV will be expected to provide technical conceptual guidance to other technical experts and management, suggest directions of investigation in this project and in other areas at NERSC, create new opportunities for NERSC and may serve as a principal collaborator.

QUALIFICATIONS: Essential -- Experience in file system internals on UNIX platforms is required. Experience with the evaluation and analysis of file systems performance is highly desired. Experience in a 24x7 large-scale production environment or high performance computing environment. An in-depth knowledge of the Global File System, Storage Area Networks and distributed lock management is desired. Software development skills of interest include languages (C, C++, Java, F90), scripting languages (shell [Korn Bourne], Perl, Python, TK/TCL), version control, software engineering, APIs, and experience developing system level software (e.g., device drivers, file systems, kernel development, protocols). The ability to communicate technical results via presentations, reports and documentation is expected. In addition to the technical skills listed above, a demonstrated ability to interact effectively with vendors and the community, researchers, production computing staff, and users is very important. Experience selling group and center ideas and project via mechanisms such as white papers, proposals and presentations is desired. Essential for the Computer Systems Engineer III -- The incumbent should have demonstrated ability to take a technical and /or leadership role in similar activities; experience solving complex technical problems; experience setting direction for future activities; thorough knowledge of related hardware and software technology. Essential for the Computer Systems Engineer IV -- In addition to the qualifications for the Computer Systems Engineer III, the Computer Systems Engineer IV should have demonstrated experience as project leader in related area, providing technical guidance to others and taking responsibility for major project deliverables and direction; and demonstrated ability to create and develop new opportunities with the organization.

NOTE: This is an indefinite (career) full-time appointment. This position is open only to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and eligible non-immigrant foreign nationals. If you are a non-immigrant foreign national of any of the Tier 3 or 4 countries as defined by the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 15, Chapter VII, Section 740.7(c-e) you MAY be prohibited from applying for this position. If you are called for an interview and are not a U.S citizen, permanent resident, or eligible foreign national, please discuss your status with the HR staff member who calls you prior to accepting an interview.

Wow. I wish I were qualified for that

[dr_zeus]

Heck, I wish I *knew* someone qualified for that job. If you're working in that environment, you have the ultimate ubergeek job!

Re:Wow. I wish I were qualified for that

[anzha]

*chuckles* Thanx. It's an awesome place to work.

Work on your FS coding skills. Linux is looking rather central to what we do in the future. Really, the things that ought to be emphasized when prepping for a HPC job are filesystems, batch schedulers, kernel work, and communication off the top of my head. We might be opening more lower level positions in the future.

Point people to the posting. I'd be tickled if /. was the place we found our FS geek.