Context:

The African Supercomputing Center (ASCC) is a new entity in the Univervisty Mohamed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) aimed at providing HPC services to the research community in Morocco and the African continent.

The ASCC is home to the largest HPC infrastructure in Africa. This cutting-edge platform, based on the latest technologies in the HPC world, can deliver a performance of 3.15 PF.

The ASCC wants for these resources to be open to African researchers, academics and entrepreneurs, with promising projects in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Genomics, Food Security, Agriculture and Mining.

Our vision is to create at UM6P a world class research infrastructure, to solve African research problems in both academia and industry and create the next generation of computational scientists and digital entrepreneurs.

Roles and responsibilities

• System monitoring and maintenance including configuration & security management, patching, automation, hardening and system upgrades
• Overseeing system performance and troubleshooting issues;
• Performing system upgrades following new releases;
• Researching and recommending new approaches to improve the HPC platform;
• Documenting any processes which employees need to follow in order to successfully work within the system;
• Diagnosing and resolving hardware, software, networking, and system issues when they arise.
• Replacing and upgrading defective or outdated components when necessary.
• Enable faster and smarter operations and implement analytics for meaningful insights
• Partner with internal and external partners to improve the platform, operations and the overall service delivered to end users

Mandatory Experience

• At least 5 years storage, network administration, and system administration experience
• Degree/diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications or a related field
• Strong Experience in Linux and windows server environments administration
• Working experience with orchestration tools like Ansible
• Working knowledge of virtualization, VMWare, or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of implementing and effectively developing helpdesk and IT operations best practices, including expert knowledge of security, storage, data protection, and disaster recovery protocols
• Strong experience with hosting services (Virtualization, Containers…)

Preferred Experience

• Strong knowledge of the High-Performance Computing technologies
• Working experience of Network administration in Datacenter Environments
• Working experience with virtualization with Openstask