Novartis
Pharmaceutical
Assoc.Dir.DDITIESHPCInfrastructureSr.Engineer
“Assoc. Dir. DDIT IES - HPC Infrastructure Sr. Engineer at Novartis. Skills: HPC Infrastructure, Linux, Scripting, HPC Scheduling, HPC Cluster Management, Distributed Filesystems, DevOps. Execution, continuous improvement, service delivery and operations of a specific function/platform. Develop and maintain a technology roadmap”
What You'll Achieve.
Provide efficiency flexibility and speed at the lowest aggregate cost; Team that is consistently over performing and delivering on business and technology objectives
Industry & Context.
Problem Solving Skills
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years’ IT experience, at least 3 in an HPC/scientific computing environment, Experience designing and building infrastructure within a public cloud platform (e. g. AWS, GCP or Azure) as they relate to HPC workloads, Hands-on experience with system administrative task in Linux environment, fluency in scripting (shell scripting in bash required, Python knowledge would be advantageous), Can build software from sources including knowledge of build systems (e. g. Make, CMake. . . ), Extensive knowledge of one or more HPC scheduling mechanisms (e. g. Grid Engine, Slurm, LSF. . . etc. ), Extensive knowledge of one or more HPC cluster management software packages (e. g. Bright Cluster Manager / Base Command Manager, xCat, OpenHPC… etc. ), Hands-on knowledge of network- and distributed filesystems (e. g. NFS, GPFS, Gluster, BeeGFS, Lustre or other parallel file systems, etc. ), Worked in environments with high speed / low latency network (e. g. InfiniBand), knowledge of Unix systems performance tuning, Working knowledge of DevOps (e. g. Ansible, Chef, CICD etc. ) tools and practices
Nice to Have
experience setting up, maintaining, and tuning infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, experience with HPC infrastructure supporting a scientific / research / pharmaceutical / bioinformatics / cheminformatics environment
What You'll Do.
continuous improvement
service delivery and operations of a specific function/platform
Develop and maintain a technology roadmap
Oversee the operational health deployment and lifecycle of technology and/or platform solutions
Design and deploy technology solutions
Act as L4 support during major and critical incidents
Automation of service deployments and management
coach and mature a team
Drive change management and culture change
Performs the operational health deployment and lifecycle of HPC technology
Designs innovative solutions utilizing projects and qualification frameworks to run and optimize complex infrastructures
Act as technical and organizational escalation point during major and critical incidents
Responsible to track suppliers and partner for effective and efficient delivery of projects
Contributes to service / platform strategy development
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Recruit, coach and mature a team that is consistently over performing and delivering on business and technology objectives; Drive change management and culture change by adhering to and evangelizing Novartis values and behaviors; Act as technical and organizational escalation point during major and critical incidents; Contributes to service / platform strategy development
Communication Scope
Communication Skills
Process & Methodology
Responsible to track suppliers and partner for effective and efficient delivery of projects
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