Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations Job Qualifications: Skills: Complex Systems, High Performance Computing (HPC), Operations Management, System Performance, Systems Management Certifications: None Experience: 8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: SYSTEMS ENGINEER PRINCIPAL Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Principal High Performance Computing (HPC) and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Systems Engineer Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of National Oceanagraphic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS). You will play a crucial role in supporting the full lifecycle sustainment and operational availability of leading edge High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters that are the key elements of the Weather & Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS) used 24/7 by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO). ● Lead/Manage/Support the day-day operations, sustainment, HPC services delivery, and incremental enhancements of two, geographically separated HPC clusters that are GDIT contractor owned and contractor operated (COCO) and used exclusively for WCOSS. This position will be essential in maintaining complex HPC service availability and delivery for intricate customer workload processing and output specifically aligned to forecasting and predictions from the Global Forecast System (GFS) and supporting models. ● Collaborate with the GDIT WCOSS team as a senior-level HPC functional expert addressing intricate and multifaceted HPC challenges by providing innovative ideas, solutions, and resolution for customer requests, issues, and improvement efficiencies on a continuous basis. ● Drive and prioritize resource utilization towards continuously improving customer satisfaction with GDIT's HPC service delivery and exceeding the contract service level metrics of uptime, availability, performance, stability, and on-time product delivery. ● Utilize past experience, team collaboration, system management and troubleshooting applications, and ingenuity to support customer operations while working on systems that range in capacity from 1000-3000+ nodes and 100's of PB storage per system. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Systems Engineer Principal must have: ● Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science ● Experience: 8+ years of related experience ● Technical skills: ighly proficient with Linux (RockyOS, SLES, etc), scripting in Python, Perl, or Bash, networking concepts and technology such as Ethernet, InfiniBand and Slingshot, TCP/IP networking, basic routing, and network services, programming in Python, C/C++, or Fortran, administrating PBSpro, SLURM or other batch systems in an HPC cluster, and system performance monitoring and tuning in an HPC cluster environment (e.g., Opensearch, Grafana, Prometheus) ● Security clearance level: must complete a satisfactory background investigation ● US citizenship required ● Role requirements: expected to perform as individual SME contributor, functional lead, or project/task leader responsible for workproduct delivery. Extensive experience in troubleshooting, diagnosing and repairing hardware failures to component level on servers; coordinating with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems. Minimal travel required for onsite work, team collaboration, training, and customer interaction. GDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. ● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities ● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals ● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off ● Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home as part of an onsite and distributed remote team with opportunites for in-person collaboration ● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward. The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: Less than 10% Telecommuting Options: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most. We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc. Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans Apply tot his job