Job Description
Guardant’s HPC team builds and operates the computational technology backbone of the company. This includes scalable data storage that holds PBs of genomics data, high performance compute clusters running a custom bioinformatics pipeline in production and R&D environments, and the software infrastructure that hosts an ecosystem of services for internal data processing and external data integration. To facilitate Guardant Health’s fast growth in the next few years, the HPC team is looking for a strong technical engineer who can help maintain and help grow the HPC infrastructure during its aggressive expansion, while working with corporate IT, SQA and DevOps/SRE teams.
This role can be remotely worked part-time, but requires a very hands-on, on-premise presence when on rotation, minimally.
In this role, you will primarily:
- Assist in managing the HPC interconnect.
- Assist in integrating the HPC systems with the bandwidth on-demand system.
- Work with the networking infrastructure team to manage and optimize the connectivity to and from the HPC systems and locales.
- Help manage multiple HPC clusters and cluster file systems.
- Help research, develop and implement the next HPC solution.
- Troubleshoot the production system stack down to source code level e.g. shell scripts, python and others.
- Maintain, monitor, and support the infrastructure environment and/or facilities.
- Use and maintain enhanced production monitoring and additional capability.
- Support improvements for increased system reliability and performance.
- Support multiple systems or applications of medium to high complexity (complexity defined by size, technology used, and system feeds and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility.
- Support systems at remote locations, including internationally.
- Work with offsite consultants to maintain the infrastructure.
- Work with vendors to troubleshoot, upgrade and repair systems as needed.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.