Senior Storage System Admin (Public Sector)

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

We are currently looking for enthusiastic individuals who will work with our staff of system administrators and scientists to design, deploy and administer our client's High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, petabyte-scale data storage systems, and associated specialized systems. In this role, you will be a critical member of the team responsible for managing 50+ PB of storage.

Federal Requirement: Must be eligible for Public Trust Clearance. Will be working on client site 1-2 days/wk. (Bethesda, MD)

Job Duties:

• Configure, monitor, and upgrade large scale, high performance storage systems
• Propose, evaluate, and recommend new storage technologies such as: parallel filesystems, object storage systems, and cloud based storage for use in and with the HPC environment
• Respond to user requests regarding storage allocations and serve as a subject matter expert on storage for users and other HPC staff members
• Consult and collaborate with scientist and system administrator coworkers to solve storage issues encountered by users
• Perform general Linux administration and user support tasks

Required Skills:

• 5+ years Linux administration experience
• Experience designing, implementing, and administering high performance or enterprise storage
• A demonstrated track record of successfully providing end user facing support in a fast-paced production environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desired Skills:

• A working knowledge of one or more parallel filesystems (e.g. GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Vast, Lustre, BeeGFS, etc.)
• Professional experience in environments with greater than 1 PB of storage
• Strong knowledge of block and network level storage protocols (e.g. SCSI, SAS, Fibre Channel, FCoE, SRP)
• Experience administering NFS and/or SMB/CIFS
• Networking expertise (e.g. Ethernet, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, and/or InfiniBand)
• Experience with enterprise backup software (e.g. NetBackup, CommVault, etc.)
• Knowledge of Linux filesystem auditing tools
• Experience presenting and/or teaching

Pay Range: $105,000 - $125,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits of Working Here:

• Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
• 16 paid holidays throughout the year
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement 
• Corporate gift matching program 

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.