System Administrator

About Pasqal

PASQAL designs and develops Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) and associated software tools.

Our innovative technology enables us to address use cases that are currently beyond the reach of the most powerful supercomputers; these cases can concern industrial application challenges as well as fundamental science needs.

In addition to the exceptional computing power they provide QPUs are highly energy efficient and will contribute to a significant reduction in the carbon footprint of the HPC industry.

Job Description

As part of our strong growth we are recruiting a System Administrator to reinforce our Ops team.

Your main missions will be:

• Manage hardware repairs on the cluster and deal with our partners (online and physically at the DataCenter site) for support diagnostics
• Maintain operating system updates and security patch upgrades.
  
• Maintain software modules installed on onpremise resources.
  
• Manage user privileges and account details on the cluster.
  
• Manage user access to slurm accounts on the cluster.
  
• Configure QPU network interconnections.
  
• Perform regular diagnostics on the cluster to check software and hardware problems.
  
• Participate in the maintenance and evolution of cloud platforms.
  
• Managing CI/CD tools with the team to automate and improve development and release processes.
  
• Testing and documenting all your work. Keeping a regular technological watch.

Technical stack :

• Prometheus Loki Grafana
• Slurm
• Gitlab
• Python/Go scripting
• Ansible
• Linux environment
• CI/CD
• Infiniband NVIDIA software stack
• Knowledge debugging/working HPC code with openMP/MPI

About you

• 35 years professional experience working as a system administrator.
  
• 3 years professional experience working with HPC.
  
• Experience implementing and using a monitoring stack.
  
• Experience working in a CI/CD and or Linux environment preferred.
  
• Creative problem solver.
  
• Familiar with agile methodology.
  
• Comfortable working independently with limited direction.
  
• Curiosity and keen interest for new technologies.
  
• Comfortable working in an English speaking environment.

What we offer

• A flexible rhythm of remote work (2 to3 days per week)
• Type of contract : CDI
• A dynamic and closeknit international team
• A key role in a growing startup
• Free time to train and go to conferences/meetups

Recruitment process

• An interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialistof 30.
• An exchange with Engineering manager 45.
• A technical assessment (to be defined).
• A culture fit with the team 60.
• An offer!

PASQAL is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace as inclusion and diversity are essential to achieving our mission. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender ethnicity age religion or sexual orientation.