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Western Digital’s High Performance Computing environments are key to bringing new storage solutions to market. As a Senior High Performance Computing (HPC) engineer in the IT Infrastructure team, you will be at the heart of Western Digital’s engineering and product development process, delivering the IT HPC infrastructure and services that empowers engineering teams to develop new storage technologies and deliver high quality products to market quickly.

As a member of the HPC as a service team – HPCaaS, you will be responsible for establishing and executing on strategic objectives focused on improving the effective utilization of the compute resources while meeting or exceeding customer service level agreements for job prioritization, job concurrency, and job throughput in our EDA compute clusters. This includes leading architectural innovation and path finding efforts to create and implement Western Digital’s next generation Grid computing environment. As a member of the team you will be expected to not only deliver on technical requirements and solutions but also be able to present your solutions to senior management. Responsibilities include but are not limited to working as individual contributor, a team member and a technical team lead to explore, define and pilot new solutions with little supervision. Develop solutions, scripts and/or processes to automate management of services and tools as required. In this role, you will be collaborating closely with EDA and hardware design team stakeholders to define and deliver workload efficiency improvements in Western Digital’s EDA HPC infrastructure globally.

What you’ll be doing:

·       Support multi-site, high performance compute infrastructure and services for the global engineering product development organizations

·       Design, create, deliver and support the deployment of Ansible automation within HPC and Unix environments

·       Identify and propose solutions and new services for the distributed ASIC and GPU computing clusters

·       Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis of HPC clusters and file system related issues

·       Develop and maintain documentation for all aspects of the HPC infrastructure

·       Improve root cause analysis and corrective action for problems large and small – identify patterns and propose how we can automate repetitive tasks

·       Recommend and implement solutions to improve performance of workloads

·       Support diverse Engineering Design Automation environment

What we need to see:

·       Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

·       7+ years Linux systems administration experience specifically in managing or supporting RedHat and/or Centos Linux in production environments

·       Experience with configuration management tools: Ansible, Puppet, Chef

·       Ability to technically lead a project through the lifecycle

·       Scripting skills: highly skilled in a at least two typical scripting languages (shell/bash, perl, python, ruby)

·       Excellent problem solving, multitasking, troubleshooting skills and attention to details are required to work in this challenging and dynamic environment

·       Very strong interpersonal, customer service, result oriented and team building skills

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:

·       Experience with IBM Platform LSF, Grid Engine, NC or similar technologies

·       Experience with Quest QAS

·       In depth knowledge of EDA design flows and supporting EDA tools

·       Experience with AWS infrastructures as code (IaC) using Terraform or Cloudformation

·       Familiarity with Splunk and Check-MK for troubleshooting and monitoring

·       Experience with source / version control systems

Because Western Digital thrives on the power of diversity and is committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect, and contribution, we are committed to giving every qualified applicant and employee an equal opportunity. Western Digital does not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their protected class status and complies with all federal and state laws against discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, as well as the laws and regulations set forth in the "Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law" poster.

Part of creating a diverse and inclusive workplace includes ensuring that all qualified applicants and employees are provided equal consideration for any available opportunity. Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with a disability. If you need a reasonable accommodation, email us at [email protected].In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.