Role:
Manage and optimize on-premises and cloud-based High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure, CAE applications and engineering simulation environments to provide reliable, secure, scalable and cost-effective computing services for vehicle development and validation activities.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and maintain High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, servers, storage, operating systems and network components.
- Install, configure, monitor and troubleshoot HPC servers, job scheduling environment and associated infrastructure.
- Administer and support CAE software, simulation applications and license management systems.
- Provide user onboarding, access management and operational support for engineering users utilizing HPC resources.
- Monitor system performance, utilization, queue status, job success rate and resource availability.
- Support software deployment, upgrades, patch management, backup, security compliance and system health reporting.
- Coordinate with IT teams, software vendors and engineering users for issue resolution and performance improvement. Support capacity planning, business continuity and disaster recovery activities for HPC infrastructure.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, knowledge base and monthly utilization reports.
- Contribute towards digital transformation initiatives related to simulation infrastructure and HPC modernization. Cloud HPC Server Management Responsibilities:
- Provision, configure, administer and monitor cloud-based HPC servers, virtual machines, storage, networking and access controls.
- Support hybrid HPC execution by coordinating workload movement between on-premises HPC and cloud HPC environments.
- Monitor cloud resource consumption, prepare utilization/cost reports and identify opportunities for cost optimization.
- Coordinate with cloud service providers and internal IT teams for service availability, incident resolution and performance troubleshooting.
- Support cloud security controls, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity and compliance requirements for HPC workloads.
- Evaluate cloud HPC services and contribute to the roadmap for scalable simulation computing infrastructure.
Technical Skills Preferred:
- Linux Administration, HPC Cluster Management, Job Schedulers (SLURM/PBS), Server/Storage/Network Fundamentals, Bash/Shell/Python Scripting, FlexLM/FlexNet, CAE Software Exposure (Abaqus, LS-DYNA, ANSYS, HyperWorks, STAR-CCM+, Simcenter), Cloud HPC concepts (Azure/GCP/OCI), Monitoring, Backup and DR.
