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This job description is intended to outline the job requirements for personnel working in the Houston Systems team, with responsibilities for the hybrid on-premises and cloud HPC environment supporting proprietary SLB Omega software and supporting the Geosolutions and DMS production groups and GTC development group.

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.

+ Experience with containerization.

+ 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, for example configuration and operation of HPE ClusterStor systems, NetApp, Dell Isilon, and Pure Storage.

+ Ability to write and troubleshoot Bourne, Bash and C Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby and MRTG scripts.

+ Experience with PostgreSQL and database installation and support.

+ Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Azure public clouds. Able to provision and manage instances, build images, write installation scripts.

+ Experience with configuration tools like Ansible and Terraform.

+ Experience with backup and recovery tools, IBM Spectrum, Dell Networker.

+ Good knowledge of Linux security, including configuration of endpoint security tools.

+ Ability to evaluate HPC system environments and make recommendations for improvement in performance and manageability.

+ Ability to investigate, debug and diagnose system level issues.

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 SLB 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.

+ Work with other internal support groups, systems, networking, programming, desktop support, computer operations, and facilities as required to complete administration functions.

+ Work with a variety of vendors in technical environments and in the reporting and investigation of system problems.

+ Provide a written weekly status report to the team manager and be prepared to present and discuss this with the team at a weekly status meeting.

+ Prepared to work outside of normal hours as system maintenance often must be performed outside of prime time; provide 24/7 support to computer operations; work with other remote support locations, for example Kuala Lumpur, backing follow the sun support.

+ Participate in support on-call schedule and in weekend power outages, normally two per year and in emergency data center activities.

+ Peer-review all major projects, as part of the normal deployment philosophy.

+ Ensure compliance with all quality assurance, best practice procedures and QHSE requirements, as defined by job position.

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 **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.

+ Adhere to industry standard systems administration techniques and procedures.

+ Document standard user and operational requirements.

+ Willingness to train others. **Beneficial Experience:**

+ Experience with SLB software including Omega2 and Petrel.

+ Experience in Omega2 infrastructure software, OPM, RDM, OSM, OCM, WHSM, MMS, etc.

+ Experience in other SLB software, ECL, IX, Visage, PetroMod.