Job Description

GCI embodies excellence, integrity and professionalism. The employees supporting our customers deliver unique, high-value mission solutions while effectively leverage the technological expertise of our valued workforce to meet critical mission requirements in the areas of Data Analytics and Software Development, Engineering, Targeting and Analysis, Operations, Training, and Cyber Operations. We maximize opportunities for success by building and maintaining trusted and reliable partnerships with our customers and industry.

At GCI, we solve the hard problems. As a Systems Engineer - HPCC, a typical day will include the following duties:

The HPCC Systems Engineer will work with the HPCC team to architect, build, manage, maintain, operate, and monitor a robust multi-cluster HPCC environment. This environment features Thor clusters for data processing workloads and Roxies for high-speed, high-volume queries. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with significant experience in HPCC and Linux OS tools. They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of operations automation, data deployment, and continuous integration. They must have the proven ability to rapidly provide solutions that can keep pace with mission. They must be ease working in an agile environment with several cross-functional teams. In this role, the candidate will operate and improve our HPCC systems, orchestrate and monitor operations, and troubleshoot across Dev, Test, and Prod environments. In this role, the candidate will support a variety or HPCC users, manage workloads, orchestrate loading of new data, assist with the building of new models, and assist with the integration with AI/ML tools.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience
• At least five (4) years of related HPCC experience
• At least five (4) years of related Linux OS tools experience
  
  

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated experience with operating, configuring, and deploying the HPCC platform, to include Thor and Roxie, in physical server, VM, and Kubernetes environments
• Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure configurations
• Proficiency in scripting and query languages including Python, Bash, PhP, and SQL
• Understanding of large data, complex, and parallel processing techniques
• Familiar with file formats like CSV, Parquet, JSON, and XML
• Sound knowledge of Linux OS and demonstrated hands-on experience with Linux-based systems and shell scripting
• Understanding of PKI, TLS, X.509, and LDAP authentication
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code environments, large-scale software deployments, and/pr monitoring and testing, such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiarity with date modeling processes
• Familiarity with Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence capabilities
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in data loading and model building operations
• Familiar with monitor, configuration, and operations tools to include Rancher, Grafana, Alloy, Kibana, Niagara Files, and/or vSphere
  
  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with a team to update, automate, deploy, and operate data processing and model building workloads using the HPCC system
• Coordinate with model building and data engineering teams to ingest, model, and deploy new and updated data sources
• Support model building, data analysts, and other HPCC users with ECL workunit issues, code corrections, and code improvements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with systems engineers, software engineers, data scientists, analysts, project managers, and other engineering groups
• Troubleshoot complex problems and provide customer support for software systems and application issues
• Write and update technical documentation such as system documentation, training materials, processes, and procedures
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance our organization’s capabilities
  
  

A candidate must be a US Citizen and requires an active/current TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans