HPC Engineer Cover Letter

Please consider me for the HPC engineer opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for efficient and effective HPC Support of HPC-related hardware, software, and infrastructure components to maximize the performance and availability of HPC solutions.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Knowledge of server platform, data center, and/or network architecture, in particular Infiniband architecture and experience working with Infiniband products
• Expertise in configuration of Linux OS environments
• DevOps focused engineer with experience in LEAN principles
• PowerShell or Python development skills
• Chef or DSC experience
• Hyper-V or other Cloud Management Platform experience
• Expert systems and/or machine learning
• Knowledge of Parallel Programming architectures

Please consider me for the HPC engineer opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for timely and effective maintenance and repair support on HPC-related hardware, software, and infrastructure components to maximize the performance and availability of HPC solutions.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Working knowledge of network file system (NFS)
• Working knowledge of storage systems and storage controllers (NAS, SAN)
• Excellent communication skills (with managers and/or scientists)
• Experience within in an HPC environment or large server/data center environment
• Experience with source code control systems code repositories SVN, GIT
• Familiarity with cluster scheduling
• Large scale environments - LDAP, NFS, server virtualization (VMWare), deployments and automation / configuration management
• Experienced with Kickstart, NetBoot, DHCP, DNS, monitoring tools (Nagios, Splunk)

I would like to submit my application for the HPC engineer opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for system administration support to the program's Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) production and development/test environments, to include: system installation, configuration, troubleshooting, performance analysis, tuning, upgrading, patch maintenance, license management, system backup administration, user account/environment administration, implementing and maintaining system security postures, fiber attached storage management.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Experience with Commercial CAE Applications
• Strong working knowledge of batch scheduling systems
• Should be able to work well with customers
• Experience architecting systems for CFD/CAE or life sciences and genomics applications
• Domain knowledge in HPC and system software such as cluster man management/provisioning tools, job schedulers, MPI, etc
• Track record of designing and implementing HPC frameworks for computational research (finance applications a bonus)
• Deep knowledge of HPC/parallel frameworks and libraries
• Understanding of network storage and distributed filesystems

I would like to submit my application for the HPC engineer opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for support to large Unix HPC Clusters including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for HPC Storage components.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience debugging, profiling, and optimizing HPC software
• Advanced knowledge of C++ and a high-level language
• Demonstrated use of organization resources to drive professional development
• Experience with unit and integration testing tools
• Experience with software development in Linux
• Experience with scripting (shell / perl /bash / python/ruby)
• Professional knowledge in physical science fields
• Excellent customer-facing communication and consultation skills

I would like to submit my application for the HPC engineer opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for general technical support and monitoring capabilities as part of the operations team for the HPC systems including Sierra, large Linux clusters, file systems, and storage systems.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Programming experience in Python Scripting
• Programming experience in C++ Programming Language
• Experience in Linux server and network administration
• Demonstrated project experience of standard software development practices requirements, design, development, validation
• Exposure to large scale monitoring or metrics systems based on tools such as Prometheus, Ganglia, StatsD
• Programming in Linux Platform
• Python, Bash or Perl
• Network protocols and scalable algorithms