HPC System Administrator

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Description and Requirements

Lenovo is the Number 1 Supercomputing provider in the world measured by Top 500 entries, and we keep going. Our Data Center team is dedicated to fostering an environment that encourages entrepreneurism and ownership - a workplace where your talents can be challenged, and your efforts recognized and rewarded.

We are currently looking for a High-Performance Computing (HPC) System Administrator to work a mix of on-site and remotely with one of our customers.

The role requires a local presence in the Toyota City area of Aichi, Japan. Candidates must reside in this area or should be open to relocating to this area.

As a member of the Lenovo Professional Services HPC System Administrator team, your responsibilities will be to:

- Implement, deliver, and administer HPC Clusters, networks, and storage.

- Perform Solution optimization, migration, upgrade, and recommend strategies

- Work collaboratively and complementary with the hardware support teams, technical sales (presales) team, and Business Partners

- Work closely to support, guide, and interact with our customers

The role gives you a great deal of independence and opportunity to take the lead and advise. You will be expected to work effectively in providing onsite technical services in the areas of HPC & AI platforms and solutions. Also, you will be responsible for implementing and supporting HPC solutions involving Server, Storage, Network, Power and Cooling, Operating System, and cluster management software. The job responsibilities involve providing troubleshooting, resolving, and advising on the mentioned infrastructure and technologies.

The position offers you the opportunity to build a solid customer relationship therefore it is important that you possess customer interaction skills and the ability to make technical decisions, to collaborate during projects with several organization verticals, partners, and customers, and to develop training and knowledge base documentation.

Position Requirements

- 3 years + experience as a Linux System Administrator (Suse, RHEL, CentOS)

- Experience with HPC system troubleshooting and support

- Awareness of Lenovo HPC hardware and ability to complete initial troubleshooting.

- Ability to work with the Lenovo Level 3 (L3) team to perform a deeper analysis of any technical issues.

- Ability to perform Operating System installation and/or upgrades with no supervision

- Knowledge of HPC Job Schedulers (PBS Pro, Slurm)

- Awareness of HPC storage solutions such as GPFS, DDN

- Able to perform high-level problem determination to resolve incidents

- Fluency in Japanese and Kanji, both spoken and written

- English language, Intermediate to Advanced (preferred) - written and spoken

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

- Willingness to respond on an escalation basis outside of core working hours

What Lenovo can offer you:

- An exciting job with great opportunities for success

- A good potential to grow both professionally and personally

- Working alongside a Global team of HPC System Administrators

- You will be a part of the Number 1 PC vendor in the world

- Very nice and stimulating office environments

- Flexibility and working from home a possibility

At Lenovo, we are proud to be an equal opportunity company. This vacancy certainly applies to people with disabilities, too.

Additional Locations:
* Japan - Aichi - Nagoya-shi