Systems Engineer

This is an exceptional opportunity to work with a nationwide Oil & Gas company in houston, TX.

Hours: 8am - 5pm

Specific Work Requirements:

· A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a large HPC enterprise environment comprising thousands of servers, large storage solutions, tape and tape automation.
· Proficient in the installation, configuration and management of Linux based operating systems, preferably using RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux.
· Experience with IBM’s xCAT distributed computing management software.
· Experience with installation and maintenance of computer hardware including servers, tape drives, robotic tape libraries, GPGPU, SSD, disk arrays.
· Knowledge of networking and datacenter technologies, switching, routing, high-availability, LAN / WAN / WLAN topologies and system configuration for Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fiber Channel SAN.
· Experience with HPC Storage Solutions, HPE ClusterStor systems, NetApp, Dell Isilon, Pure Storage, EMC VNX storage and StorNext data management software configuration and operation.
· Ability to write and troubleshoot Bourne, Bash and C Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby and MRTG scripts.

General Work Requirements:

· Conform to local change management philosophies, including full testing on non-production systems, prior to production deployment.
· Effectively communicate all change activities to all affected parties including a clear description of the change, related service outages and possible effects on the different environments we support.
· Ensure IT deployment standards are maintained, with verification through reporting systems.
· Meet KPO requirements for InTouch support processing, including full documentation of problem resolution, creation of knowledge content and best practice items.
· Show a good understanding of computer equipment, and its care and maintenance.

Personal Traits:

· Self-motivated, able to work with minimum direction.
· Able to work as part of a team, either in small groups, or as part of the Data Center support team as a whole and accomplish this in either a lead or reporting role.
· Able to demonstrate good written, phone and face to face communication skills when working with a peer group and with internal and external customers and with vendors.

Beneficial Experience:

· Exposure to software including Omega2 and Petrel.
· Experience in Omega2 infrastructure software, OPM, RDM, OSM, OCM, WHSM, MMS, etc.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree from a four-year college in computer science studies or 5-10 years equivalent work experience, and current industry recognized training and certification, for example from Cisco, RedHat or Microsoft.

Note that if you get hired you must under go a background check, a driving records check and a drug