AbbVie HPC Architect at AbbVie responsible for technical leadership and architecture of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid HPC scientific computing environments. Role includes designing, implementing, and supporting HPC infrastructure and automation.
Responsibilities
Serve as the technical architect for AbbVie IR’s on-premises, cloud, and hybrid HPC based scientific-computing environments. Responsible for architecture, standards, infrastructure (software and hardware) lifecycle, evaluation of POC, capacity planning, and cost management.
Architect and continuously evolve all aspects of scientific HPC computing platforms, including operational and maintenance processes.
Design, implement, and support HPC compute and networking infrastructure - compute, networking, and storage.
Administer and optimize Slurm workload management, including partitions, queues, priorities, fair-share, reservations, resource limits, GPU scheduling, accounting, job troubleshooting, performance tuning, and integration with Posit and other research platforms.
Establish secure, reproducible container and scientific software environments using Apptainer/Singularity, Docker-compatible workflows, environment modules, compilers, MPI, CUDA, Python, R, and application dependencies.
Assist with the architecture and support of Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, Posit Package Manager, and related analytics platforms, integrating them with Slurm, Active Directory, storage, GPUs, and scientific software.
Implement secure identity and access management in accordance with AbbVie security SOPs and applicable industry standards. Architect, implement, and support vulnerability-management processes and remediation efforts.
Lead efforts to automate provisioning, configuration, patching, testing, monitoring, remediation, and lifecycle activities.
Maintain observability metrics, architecture diagrams, inventories, dependency maps, configuration standards, runbooks, support procedures, and end-of-life plans while addressing technical debt, operational risks, and capacity constraints. Lead the development of appropriate reporting and monitoring tools and dashboards.
Lead design and incident reviews, vendor engagements, proofs of concept, capacity planning, and implementation governance; provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering and partner teams.
Partner with R&D to create appropriate solutions for research workloads.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field with 7 years of experience; OR Master’s Degree with 6 years of experience; OR PhD 2 years’ experience.
Qualification
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Required
Strong hands-on experience with HPC infrastructure
Experience with AWS and hybrid cloud environments
Experience with Slurm workload management
Experience with infrastructure as code and automation
Experience with DevOps practices and enterprise IT operations
Preferred
Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
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We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
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