Senior Systems Administration Engineer

• Work collaboratively with a globally diverse team of employees and contractors through FLIGHT DECK and with our SQDC mindset to deliver on established business priorities and commitments.
• Provide excellent global customer/stakeholder support in a collaborative, consultative style with a constant focus on operational efficiency.
• Install, configure, manage, secure, run and support large scale Linux-based clusters and related Lustre/NAS storage, visualization and data management services.
• Support and maintain a broad spectrum of engineering software packages aligned to technical disciplines such as finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics and lifing analytics or equivalent.
• Build, manage and execute complex infrastructure management and operational projects (i.e. installation, upgrades, and migration/decommission.)
• Embrace change and promote the identification of service improvement opportunities across the global team while applying robust change management processes.
• Contribute to evolving current legacy service and solution offerings into next generation capabilities aligned to new and emerging business needs.
• Identify opportunities to drive the automation of repeatable processes, efficiency and to remove non-value added tasks and overhead from team activities.
• Drive effective written and spoken communication within the team and externally to stakeholders.
• Partner with leadership and Architects to ensure that service quality meets and exceeds stakeholder expectations.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.)
• Significant professional experience in working with complex enterprise-class High Performance Computing (HPC) and/or Simulation Based Engineering and Science (SBES) systems.
• Demonstrable and quantifiable experience providing technical HPC operational support as well as building, operating and managing distributed end-to-end technical computing and Linux-based cluster solutions (compute, storage, visualization.)
• Willingness to work out of an office located in Bangalore, India with occasional weekend and off-hours availability required to execute on projects and respond to critical operational needs.

• Demonstrated ability to design, develop and maintain creative solutions to complex software, engineering toolchain and application problems.
• Mission critical systems management experience with enterprise-class compute, storage, network, virtualization and cloud service technologies.
• Experience working directly with, administering, maintaining and securing global Linux compute clusters (RHEL 7.x/8.x), Lustre-based storage services, related VMware visualization (ESXi and vCenter) and data management systems.
• Experience working directly with cloud providers/infrastructure (Amazon, Microsoft, etc.), database technologies, operating systems (Windows, Linux) and orchestration tools (Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience implementing, scaling, managing and administering infrastructure monitoring and management tools (i.e. NAGIOS, Splunk, HP Openview, Oracle Enterprise Manager, OpsView or equivalent.)
• Experience working with emerging HPC GPU technologies, Machine Learning frameworks, Slurm, Hadoop/Big Data frameworks, Docker/Singularity containerization, etc.
• Experience with engineering software aligned to finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics and lifing analytics or equivalent.
• Experience delivering complex technical projects focused on infrastructure management and operations.

• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interact at all levels of the organization and across cultural, geographic and business boundaries.
• Strong understanding of software governance and compliance/regulatory requirements.

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to build effective processes while applying FLIGHT DECK tools, mindset and methodology.
• Relentless drive and desire for continuous improvement. Challenges the status quo and pursues opportunities to drive service evolution, quality and efficiency while removing waste and non-value added work from team activities.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
• Articulates the story; uses two-way communication and influences outcomes and on-going results.
• Strong oral and written communication skills including executive level presentation skills.
• Self-motivated.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver on commitments to stakeholders.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker.

• Demonstrated interpersonal and global teaming abilities with ability to build consensus and navigate through debate, conflict and constructive disagreement.
• Works well in a fast paced, agile, adaptive environment.
• Wiling to adapt to change, and learn new tools, technologies and processes as needed.
• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analytical skills and best practices.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex, competing priorities simultaneously.

GE Aerospace