Technical Lead - Poly Clearance Required

TECHNICAL LEAD

Praxis successfully delivers a prime contract supporting High Performance Computing (HPC) for a government customer and its select mission partners. This contract provides scientific computing support, advanced computing capabilities, and interfaces to IT infrastructures to enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics by delivering the highest quality technical capabilities and engineering support to its customers. The infrastructure includes state of the art hardware, software, and networks. The program supports an advanced computing infrastructure containing clustered supercomputing class CPUs and GPUs, software defined storage, and advanced networking delivering advanced scientific modeling and data analytic results. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve the government’s most challenging computational and scientific problems to deliver mission results.

What you will be doing

The ideal candidate will play a key role in continuously improving and operating some of the most sophisticated computing platforms that the client has to bring deliver solutions against complex problems. These systems enable complex analysis, simulation and modeling leveraging massively computing against disparate holding of very large data sets, to answer difficult questions.

How this role fits

To do this you will work closely with the customers, existing team members and the Program Management Office (PMO) to continuously advance the state of the art in this HPC environment. You have both the technical acumen, expertise in systems operations and task management discipline that allows you credibility succeed with all stakeholder . Your primary responsibility is to oversee the existing and future system leveraging your knowledge of Linux and Windows system administration, virtualization with VMWare and Citrix, Storage appliances, networking and operations experience.

You will play a key role in contributing to the systems strategy with the Program Manager to create a vision for the future of the system, built on the successes of the program and needs to the users. This role also is a senior technical resource contributing to the daily operations of the program.

Your background is that of a talented, multi-discipline engineer versed in getting the best performance out of systems. You are familiar with High Performance Computing and/or both CPU and GPU based systems. You understand system administration, network engineering, storage solutions, and virtualization, with deep experience in at least two of those disciplines. Previous technical leadership experience I one of your calling cards.

Job Description

• Responsible for the normal day-to-day operations and maintenance of the HPC environment
• Works as a senior resource to the systems administration teams
• Provide assessments, on-going performance analysis and recommendations for future architectures by contributing to the future HPC strategy for the client and its user base
• Comfortable working with client management, users, and engineering teammates to accomplish operational tasks
• Experience working to establish priorities with clients to lead the technical teams (agile/Kanban methodologies)
• Understanding of deploying and maintaining CPU and GPU based systems
• Experience with system administration (Linux/Windows), network engineering, storage and virtualization, with deep experience in at least two of those disciplines
• Understanding of, and experience with, the client’s security and control systems to work with the existing ISSEs to assure system compliance
• Experience with Windows and Linux Operating Systems essential
• Previous experience in a production environment with help desk requirements
• Prior experience as a Systems Administrator, with a preference for experience working with clustered systems including GPUs in the hardware stack
• Other duties could be required to support the customer’s mission

Preferred Skills

• Successful track record automating routine tasks
• Experience gathering ,documenting and vetting user requirements
• Partners with data scientists, engineers, and analysts conducting requirements gathering
• Experience deploying Applications and software to mission networks
• Software engineering, development and/or integration experience a plus
• Experience with the Authorization To Operate process

Clearance :
Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role

Salary range:

$138,894.00 - $307,825.00 (Annually)*

REQ#: PRX-25-711

*The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. 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.

Who are we? Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.

Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems. With over 50 contracts (Prime + SubK), Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.

*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of .

Why Praxis? We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don’t do things because “that’s the way we’ve always done things”; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace. We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer’s mission. We've been profitable year after year. We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do. We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best. No red tape. No micromanagement. Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better.

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Benefits

• Attractive total compensation package to include competitive salary and medical benefits!


• Office perks such as free soft drinks and snacks (both healthy and not-so-healthy)


• Praxis swag (annual gift certificate to purchase top brand Praxis apparel)


• 401K contribution/match.


• 4 weeks Paid Time Off + 10 holidays
  
• Training is a priority! Take advantage of our endless in-house training opportunities - or seek out vendor offered (paid) training opportunities like conferences, certification courses and seminars.
  
  
  
  
  
  • Conferences (recently attended by Praxis employees): AWS Summit, IoT World, Black Hat and DefCon.
  
  
  • Training & Certifications: Splunk, AWS, Big Data/Cloudera, VMWare, Scrum Master...the list of certifications goes on and on!
  
  
  • Praxis University: Cyber Research, Data Analytics, IoT, AWS and RedHat course offerings and hands-on training.
  
  


• Tuition reimbursement!
  
• Opportunity for career advancement - Grow with the company!
  
• Employee Discounts!
  
• We truly believe the right work-life balance can exist, and it's here at Praxis. Our work is extremely important, but your job is just a part of who you are. When you enjoy your life outside of our walls, you're at your best the next time you walk through our doors. We do all we can to assure that happens every day.

Praxis Engineering is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans.