A Career with Zani Technology, LLC.,

Current Openings

1. DevOps Engineer (Location: Herndon, VA)
Client provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/SE Linux based HPC services throughout the lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, and operations to federal government customers. Our employees embrace innovation and are committed to a culture of continuous, standard-driven process improvement and assimilation of industry best practices. The program provides key supercomputing capabilities for solving important problems in science and technology. This work involves working on cutting edge HPC technologies to ensure that scientists and engineers will be able to fully utilize modern HPC systems.

Duties And Responsibilities

· Deploy through Red Hat (RH) Satellite and Ansible automation and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux/SE Linux configurations.
· Work with site administration one-on-one to troubleshoot automation/deployment issues.
· Install software libraries functioning in RHEL/SE Linux environment to support DC-MLS® Enterprise deployments.
· Monitor and modify DC-MLS® Enterprise in an agile and highly flexible environment.
· Engage 3rd party vendors to translate and integrate manual steps into deployment process.
· Apply best practices in DevOps engineering, delivering projects on time and with excellent quality.
· Provide support to staff and end users to resolve DC-MLS® Enterprise related issues
· Create and/or modify existing DC-MLS® Enterprise DevOps to correct errors and/or improve deployment capabilities.
· Develop and execute test plans for filesystem upgrades and address with vendor support any issues that arise during testing.
· Potential for shaping new business growth with additional customers.

Basic Qualifications
· 5+ years of a combination of Linux, scripting/software development, and configuration management experience
· Proficiency in Python, Perl, Korn, Bourne/Bash, Ansible and other shell scripting.
· Experience with revision control software (CVS, SVN, Git, GitLab, GitLab CI)
· Management, development of DevOps deployment automation processes.
· Security+ Certification.
· TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance required to start.

Desired Skills

· Understanding of software development process including requirements, use cases, design, coding, documentation and testing.
· Ability to analyze/debug/maintain the integrity of an existing DevOps base.
· SE Linux experience: configuration and policy.
· Experience with RH Satellite.
· Experience with Lustre, NFS, and other file systems.
· Experience with Ethernet networking.
· Experience with RDMA communications (InfiniBand and OmniPath).
· Experience with InfiniBand or Omni-Path high speed fabrics, including subnet management, IPoIB and/or IPoOPA mechanisms, fabric topology and health monitoring and integration with MPI.
· Understanding and experience working with identity management systems including LDAP and token-based authentication systems.
· New business growth experience, communication and shaping of new business with customers.
· Excellent communication and people skills
Onsite : The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated facility.

2. Software Engineer Sr Staff (Location: Colorado Springs, CO)

We are seeking a mid-career level HPC Software Engineer that will work in a High Performance Computing (HPC) Research and Development (R&D) customer contract. The candidate will be an active member of the Technical User Support (TUS) team, interacting with the team, TUS team lead, program Chief Scientist, Customers, users, and site staff while on-site with a specific R&D customer. The TUS team is responsible for working with HPC users to achieve faster "time to science". You will work closely with the users to port, optimize, and parallelize codes to the users’ requirements.

You will mentor junior members of the TUS and broader HPC teams, providing technical guidance, code-review sessions, and career-development advice. You will also design and deliver training workshops, tutorials, and documentation to help end-users and internal staff adopt HPC tools, best-practice coding standards, and performance-tuning techniques. This position will be on-site with a specific customer focused on their workflow, modeling and simulation, and data requirements and working with the program Chief Scientist, TUS team lead, and others to design and implement solutions to meet the customer’s requirements. You will also be involved in system performance analysis through benchmarking, tuning libraries, and generally focused on scientific modeling, numerical processes, and other scientific software issues. You will investigate, analyze and make recommendations regarding user codes and other HPC software issues. The work will be done using best practices needed to take full advantage of the program’s HPC resources, research storage systems, and secure computing environment. You are also responsible for helping users adapt to a production shared resource, its scheduling system, and its high performance data storage systems. An individual should have demonstrated their flexible, adaptive, problem-solving abililty.

In order to be successful in this role, you will have a degree (BS) in a STEM related discipline with solid mathematics and/or physics background and experience in some combination of modeling and simulation, Fortran and/or C languages, Python, Korn, BASH, and/or Perl scripting, compilers, software benchmarking, system analysis, algorithm and/or software design.

Basic Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in STEM related discipline and a minimum of 10 years of professional level experience.
· Around 5 years of experience developing and using modeling and simulation software in heterogeneous, multi-platform environments.
· Working with HPC users workflow for mod/sim problems and GUIs.
· Knowledge of High Performance Computing (HPC) environment and related technologies.
· Demonstrated proficiency with Fortran, C, and/or C++.
· Demonstrated proficiency with BASH and Korn.
· Linux Operating System proficiency, ability to solve end-user computer system problems while working independently in a lab environment.
· Proficiency in basic software practices such as coding standards, unit testing, and configuration management.
· Strong ability to analyze, debug, and maintain the integrity of an existing code base.
· Experience designing and delivering training workshops, tutorials, or onboarding material for HPC users and internal staff.

Active Top Secret/SCI with a CI Poly to start.

Desired Skills

· Experience mentoring junior engineers or scientists, providing technical guidance, and conducting code review sessions.
· Revision control software (CVS, SVN, Git).
· Build/install tools (e.g. CMake, Makefile, autoconf).
· Experience with Python and Perl.
· GPU programming experience (e.g., CUDA, OpenCL).
· Agile process and JIRA.
· AI/ML/Neural Networks experience.
· Good organization skills to balance and prioritize work.
· Strong communication skills a results-oriented team player, creative thinker, and problem-solver.

Onsite : The work associated with this position will be onsite.