Infrastructure Solutions Architect :: Lansing, MI (Hybrid)

Ark Solutions Inc is looking for Infrastructure Solutions Architect!

Position: Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Location: Lansing, MI (Hybrid)
Duration: 12+ Months and possibility of extension

Description:

Day-to-day Responsibilities:

• Basic HPC security
• Implementing and maintaining data management infrastructure
• Providing support for SAN and NAS storage, backup/recovery environments and virtualization infrastructure by implementing, managing, and monitoring the hardware and software
• Playing a major role in the security, disaster recovery and services continuity of a highly available enterprise storage and backup infrastructure by following established procedures and compliance requirements
• Technical support (installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, retirement, troubleshooting).
• Configuration management using frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Administration of high-speed network storage systems including Mellanox switches, and NAS Cluster.
• Managing, configuring, and supporting cloud systems such as setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting cloud compute engines and storage buckets
• Managing databases (eg: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Assisting staff to access and utilize computing resources
• Co-ordinating with Labs and staff on maintaining and managing the computational resources

Skills & Experiences:

• 10+ years of experience with the Linux CLI environment and coding languages such as R, Python, Bash
• 10+ years of experience with workload management systems such as SLURM
• 10+ years of experience with setting up HPC systems including identifying suitable hardware and software needs
• 10+ years of experience with setting up and managing databases such as PostgreSQL
• 10+ years of experience performing System Administration including installation, configuration, and support software, packages, and libraries in various environments
• 10+ years of experience with Network Appliance clustered servers and applicable software
• 10+ years of experience with hands-on troubleshooting, issue resolution, discrepancy tracking, and report generation
• 10+ years of experience with Linux configuration regarding Storage, Networking, Load Balancing, Memory Management, VMs, Firewalls, and System Monitoring
• 10+ years of experience with computer security
• Knowledge of package management systems such as conda, Docker and Singularity
• Knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible or Puppet and NextFlow
• Experience with cloud computing (setting up compute engines, storage buckets)
• Strong knowledge of enterprise storage solutions
• Familiar with software frameworks used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data
• Ability to provide good recommendations, and guidance for storage and cost savings for Labs
• Knowledge and experience in HL7 messaging
• Ability to review and interpret web.config files for plugins and interpret them
• Ability to review logs (for eg: IIS logs, Dynatrace logs, etc.) to make sure that there is no excess resource utilization and no peaks or spikes occurring on the web/app server
• Knowledge in ClouFlare, ForcePoint and the related rule (for eg.C86 rule) and the policies
• Ability to understand the existing junction configuration to the application and review those settings in case of a break
• Help the team with setting up Failover environment for Apps
• Help the team to complete the Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan and DR Testing
• Knowledge on CDC hosted apps (preferred, not a requirement)

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

• 10+ years in Linux system administration (Ubuntu, CLI, security, networking)
• 10+ years in Bash & Python scripting, with pipeline automation experience (e.g., Nextflow)
• 10+ years in Slurm workload manager - installation, configuration, and job troubleshooting
• 10+ years in cluster and storage management, including NAS (Qumulo), rsync, and mount strategies