Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer
Company: Guardant Health
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: October 18, 2024
Job Description:
Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused
on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary
tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health
oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial
adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare
costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant
Health has commercially launched Guardant360, Guardant360 CDx,
Guardant360 TissueNext, Guardant360 Response, and GuardantOMNI
tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal for
early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening
portfolio, including the Shield test, aims to address the needs of
individuals eligible for cancer screening.Job DescriptionGuardant's
HPC team builds and operates the computational technology backbone
of the company. This includes scalable data storage that holds PBs
of genomics data, high performance compute clusters running a
custom bioinformatics pipeline in production and R&D
environments, and the software infrastructure that hosts an
ecosystem of services for internal data processing and external
data integration. To facilitate Guardant Health's fast growth in
the next few years, the HPC team is looking for a strong technical
engineer who can help maintain and help grow the HPC infrastructure
during its aggressive expansion, while working with corporate IT,
SQA and DevOps/SRE teams.This role can be remotely worked
part-time, but requires a very hands-on, on-premise presence when
on rotation, minimally.In this role, you will primarily:
- Assist in managing the HPC interconnect
- Assist in integrating the HPC systems with the bandwidth
on-demand system
- Work with the networking infrastructure team to manage and
optimize the connectivity to and from the HPC systems and
locales
- Help manage multiple HPC clusters and cluster file
systems.
- Help research, develop and implement the next generation HPC
solution
- Troubleshoot the production system stack down to source code
level e.g. shell scripts, python and others.
- Maintain, monitor, and support the infrastructure environment
and/or facilities.
- Use and maintain enhanced production monitoring and additional
capability.
- Support improvements for increased system reliability and
performance.
- Support multiple systems or applications of medium to high
complexity (complexity defined by size, technology used, and system
feeds and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring
control, integrity, and accessibility.
- Support systems at remote locations, including
internationally
- Work with offsite consultants to maintain the
infrastructure
- Work with vendors to troubleshoot, upgrade and repair systems
as needed
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotationQualificationsYou enjoy
an agile, very fast paced and highly technical environment. You are
a self-driven accomplished technologist who strives to be ever
improving your skills, value to the company and improve the
computational infrastructure. You are dedicated to engineering
excellence yet pragmatic and flexible. You have the ability to
maintain the day-to-day support SLA while running various key
projects that move the business forward.
- 2+ years of Linux/Unix administration, knowledge of Unix
network protocols, TCP/IP network fundamentals, core infrastructure
technologies and virtualization
- 2+ years of large-scale data storage and compute clusters (HPC)
infrastructure
- 2+ years working in and with on-premise and cloud-based (AWS,
Google, IBM and Azure) data-centers
- 2+ years of building software release and ops processes and
automation toolset
- 2+ years providing documentation of system
administrationFollowing Skills Sets are Preferred:
- Experience administering IBM's General Parallel File
System
- Experience with using Bright Cluster Manager
- Experience with cloud bursting technologies
- Experience with wide area file systems
- Experience with docker and container technologies
- Experience with Kubernetes, preferably with Certified
Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Operating infrastructure compliant with HIPAA and SOX
standardsEducationB.S. in Computer Science or related
fieldAdditional InformationHybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health,
we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and
work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees
who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to
be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found
aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the
best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work
requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for
better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance
our science for our patients.The US base salary range for this
full-time position is $138,700 to $187,300. The range does not
include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.
The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new
hire salaries across all US locations for the posted role with the
exception of any locations specifically referenced below (if
any).Within the range, individual pay is determined by work
location and additional factors, including, but not limited to,
job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
If you are selected to move forward, the recruiting team will
provide details specific to the factors above.Employee may be
required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment.
Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment;
however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and
biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit
for extended periods of time.Guardant Health is committed to
providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for
candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health
conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need
support, please reach out to Peopleteam@guardanthealth.comGuardant
Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national
origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated
against on the basis of disability.All your information will be
kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.To learn more about
the information collected when you apply for a position at Guardant
Health, Inc. and how it is used, please review our Privacy Notice
for Job Applicants.
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