Administrator 4, Systems Administration

**Company Description**
Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Sandisk'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 Sandisk’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 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 Sandisk’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 an 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 Sandisk’s EDA HPC infrastructure globally.

**Role Overview**:
Join our global engineering product development team to support and enhance multi-site, high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure and services. You will design, implement, and maintain automation solutions while driving continuous improvements in performance and reliability.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage and support distributed HPC environments across multiple locations, focusing on ASIC and GPU computing clusters.
- Design, deploy, and maintain Ansible automation for HPC and Unix systems.
- Troubleshoot complex issues within HPC clusters and file systems, performing root cause analysis and driving corrective actions.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for HPC infrastructure.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and improve system reliability.
- Recommend and implement performance enhancements for various workloads.
- Support a broad Engineering Design Automation (EDA) ecosystem including licensing and workflow management.

**Technical Environment**:

- Workload managers: LSF, Slurm, NC
- EDA tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, and their workflows
- Automation of job submissions and workload management
- Monitoring and observability using Splunk and Grafana
- Infrastructure: RedHat/CentOS Linux, NFS storage, automounters
- VDI: Exceed TurboX, VNC
- Unix/Linux authentication integrated with Active Directory
- Infrastructure automation through scripting and open-source tools

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of Linux systems administration, with strong expertise in RedHat/CentOS production environments
- Proven experience with workload managers, especially LSF/Slurm/NC
- Strong automation skills, proficient in at least two scripting languages (shell/bash, Python)
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects through their full lifecycle
- Excellent problem-solving, multitasking, and troubleshooting abilities in complex environments
- Outstanding interpersonal, customer service, and team collaboration skills, with a results-driven mindset

**Additional Information**
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