Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext, Guardant360 Response, and GuardantOMNI tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Guardant's HPC team builds and operates the computational technology backbone of the company.

This includes scalable data storage that holds PBs of genomics data, high performance compute clusters running a custom bioinformatics pipeline in production and R&D environments, and the softwareinfrastructurethat hosts an ecosystem of services for internal data processing and external data integration.To facilitateGuardantHealth's fast growth in the next few years, the HPC team is looking for a strong technical engineer who can help maintain and help grow the HPC infrastructure during its aggressive expansion, while working with corporate IT, SQA and DevOps/SREteams.

This role can be remotely worked part-time, but requires a very hands on, on-premise presence when on rotation, minimally.

In this role, you will primarily:

• Assist in managingthe HPC interconnect
• Assist in integratingthe HPC systems with the bandwidth on-demand system
• Work with the networking infrastructure team to manage and optimize the connectivity to and from the HPC systems and locales
• Help manage multiple HPC clusters and cluster file systems.
• Help research, develop and implement the next generation HPC solution
• Troubleshoot the production system stack down to source code level e.g. shell scripts, python and others.
• Maintain, monitor, and support theinfrastructureenvironment and/or facilities.
• Use and maintain enhanced production monitoring and additional capability.
• Support improvements for increased system reliability and performance.
• Support multiple systems or applications of medium to high complex (complexity defined by size, technology used, and system feeds and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility.
• Support systems at remote locations, including internationally
• Work with offsite consultants to maintain the infrastructure
• Work with vendors to troubleshoot, upgrade and repair systems as needed
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

You enjoy an agile, very fast paced and highly technical environment. You are a self-driven accomplished technologist who strives to be ever improving your skills, value to the company and improve the computational infrastructure. You are dedicated toengineering excellence yet pragmatic and flexible. You have the ability to maintain the day-to-day support SLA while running various key projects that move the business forward.

• 2+ years of Linux/Unix administration, knowledge of Unix network protocols, TCP/IP network fundamentals, coreinfrastructuretechnologies and virtualization
• 2+ years of large-scale data storage and compute clusters (HPC)infrastructure
• 2+ years working in and with on-premise and cloud-based (AWS, Google, IBM and Azure) data-centers
• 2+ years of building software release and ops processes and automation toolset
• 2+ years providing documentation of system administration

Following Skills Sets are Preferred:

• Experience administering IBM's General Parallel File System
• Experience administering Grid Engine scheduler
• Experience administering SLURM scheduler
• Experience with using Bright Cluster Manager
• Experience with cloud bursting technologies
• Experience with wide area file systems
• Experience with docker and container technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes, preferably with Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Operatinginfrastructurecompliant with HIPAA and SOX standards

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $138,700 to $187,300. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across all US locations for the posted role with the exception of any locations specifically referenced below (if any).

Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including, but not limited to, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. If you are selected to move forward, the recruiting team will provide details specific to the factors above.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment.Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment.Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out toPeopleteam@guardanthealth.com

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