The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos currently has an immediate need for an experienced System Administrator – IV HPC for a new customer on a strategic High-Performance Computing (HPC) program. The Senior System Administrator will need to be a self-starter with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, flexibility, good judgment, and the ability to work within a team to mature the HPC capabilities of our customer.

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage essential infrastructure services, ensuring high availability and performance of data center services, physical and virtual server-class systems, and storage. Lead medium-to-large scale projects, design and implement system policies, conduct advance troubleshooting, and are pivotal in the direct recovery efforts during critical system failures. Mentor Tier I/II/III staff members. Ability to work alone and as part of larger team to complete projects on time.

Basic Qualifications:

Candidates shall have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and twelve (12) years of experience in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise, or a master’s degree with ten (10) years of experience. In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, the individual shall have five (5) years of full-time computer science experience and at least ten (10) years in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise. An industry recognized professional certification as listed below may substitute as one (1) year experience.

Experience with installation, configuration, tuning and support of:

Multi-vendor servers running a plethora of COTS, open source, and in-house applications to accommodate HPC division IT support requirements.

Multi-vendor servers running Redhat or SUSE with direct attached, FC SAN storage or SSDs.

Distributing computing tools such as RES, LSF and SLURM

HPC farm systems, HPC MPP clustered systems, Front End servers of SPDs.

BM or HP Blade servers with FC/SAS/Network back end

Multi-vendor file systems such as XFS, GPFS and Lustre

Pre-Factory testing, factory testing, system integration and acceptance testing during the purchase process of HPC systems.

IAT Level II Certification Required. Accepted professional IAT Level II certifications include RHCSA or higher Red Hat certification, and/or VMWare certification.

Must possess a TS/SCI clearance with FS polygraph

Original Posting Date:2025-01-10

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:Pay Range $112,450.00 - $203,275.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.