Principle Federal HPC Technical Consultant, (Clearance Preferred TS/SCI with Poly) MD or Utah
This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
Provide technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams. Responsible for providing technical support and/or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customers’ business needs and, consequently, for understanding customers’ businesses. As trusted advisor create and maintain effective customer relationships so as to insure customer satisfaction. Maintain knowledge of leading edge technologies and industry/market domain knowledge. Actively contribute to the company’s solutions portfolio by providing information ranging from technical knowledge to methodologies based on experience gained from customer projects. Shape technical direction and technical strategies within the organization and for external customers. Accountable for consistent and significant chargeability levels (or expense relief for internal project teams) and for assisting in meeting or exceeding revenue and customer satisfaction goals. Contribute to organization’s profitability by generating and cultivating new business opportunities and by providing technical support for deal proposal development.
Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent. Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization.
US Citizenship required
Clearance: Preferred: TS/SCI/Full Scope Poly is preferred. Will consider a candidate without the clearance but the candidate must be able to get cleared including the Full Scope Polygraph and is confident that they can pass it.
Travel: Must be able and willing to travel up to 30% if needed at the customer site. Travel could extend into several weeks at a time depending on the client needs.
Remote work: Employee will be required to travel and work at the customer site when necessary.
Responsibilities:
- Strong Linux experience required
- Lead the technical implementation planning and delivery of world class scale HPC solutions, from requirements gathering to implementation.
- Provide architectural guidance on compute, storage, networking, and workload management tailored to customer use cases.
- Configure, deploy, and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters, associated storage, and network infrastructure.
- Work in close collaboration with customers on finalizing and deploying HPC software applications, hosting platforms, and management systems that enable customer research and production workloads.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting for HPC implementation in secure locations.
- Work on both operational support and strategic HPC projects; actively participate in customer user group environments.
- Evaluate and implement new tools, middleware, and methodologies to improve operations and service delivery.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise IT security and technology controls.
- Act as principal consultant in customer engagements, often leading cross-functional project teams (including customer staff).
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex, multi-vendor HPC infrastructure challenges.
- Advise senior IT and research leadership on HPC strategy, best practices, and future direction.
- Collaborate with sales teams on proposals, proof-of-concepts, and pre-sales activities, ensuring technical soundness and customer alignment.
- Mentor junior engineers and consultants, fostering knowledge sharing across the HPC practice.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- Proven ability to design and deliver complex, multi-vendor HPC solutions at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to independently complete solution implementations and application design deliverables.
- Must be United States Citizen due to the responsibilities and requirements of the role as this will be supporting a Federal site.
- Top Secret Clearance, TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP)
- Must be willing to travel as the business dictates
- Preferred location is MD or Utah, but for candidates that meet the qualifications, this role may be open to other locations within the US, as long as candidate is willing to travel
- Demonstrates broad knowledge across multiple technical domains to effectively manage complex integration efforts involving HPC and enterprise systems.
- Expertise in one or more of the following: parallel computing, MPI/OpenMP, GPU acceleration, workload schedulers (Slurm, Altair PBS Pro, Torque/MOAB, etc.), or large-scale data storage systems (Lustre, GPFS, Ceph).
- Experience with Network boot technologies (PXE or gPXE/Etherboot etc)
- Storage specific knowledge: LVM, RAID, iSCSI, Disk partitioning (GPT, MBR)
- Exposure to Opensource community and software
- Knowledge of shared storage like Lustre, SpectrumStore and High Availability solutions is a plus
- Experience with development and automation such as Ansible and GitHub, etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language. Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at management levels.
Education and Experience Required:
- 8+ years of professional experience, with at least 3+ in HPC architecture, systems engineering, or large-scale infrastructure design.
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What We Can Offer You:
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Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 119,500 - 275,000 in Maryland & Utah
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