Solutions Engineer/Systems Architect - SME
Praxis successfully delivers a prime contract supporting High Performance Computing (HPC) for a restricted customer and select mission partners. This contract provides scientific computing support, advanced computing capabilities, and interfacing IT infrastructures committed to enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics by delivering the highest quality technical capabilities and engineering support to its customers. The infrastructure includes state of the art hardware, software, and networks. The program supports an advanced computing infrastructure containing clustered super computing CPUs and GPUs, software defined storage, and advanced networking enabling high fidelity, advanced scientific modeling and data analytics. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve the government’s most challenging computational and scientific problems to meet mission requirements.
What you will be doing
Coordinates, reviews, and integrates the deliverables of information and technology architectures into cohesive solutions. Provides creative and innovative architectural solutions to rapidly evolving and continuously advancing technologies to meet mission requirements. Reviews and assesses impact of proposed scope changes to future architectures. Willingness and passion to learn new hardware/software systems that are consistent with duties. Engage staff, clients, partners and stakeholders to define the operational and future roadmap for the future High Performance Computing environment including compute, networking, interconnection, storage and client interfaces to these capabilities. Works with senior business and technical personnel to deliver a robust scalable architecture and High Performance Computing solutions that meet the mission needs of the enterprise.
What you will need
· Track record of delivering results.
· Perform system-level analysis and design, trade studies of system components, recommendation of engineering approaches, and architectures and solutions to advance the state of the High Performance Computing environments.
· Support for analysis, planning, implementation, test and deployment of highly complex production systems.
· Previous professional responsibility of developing strategies and strategic plans.
· Designing, developing and testing of embedded or real-time software, signal processing algorithms, High Performance Computing solutions, and developing software or device drivers for special-purpose hardware.
· Designing and developing solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns.
· Analyzing scientific, engineering, business, and all other data processing problems for application to electronic data processing systems.
· Previous experience documenting and presenting system architectures and plans to gain acceptance and approval from stake holders including front office staff, mission partners, information security boards, data center management, etc.
· Analyzing user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
· Significant experience with architectural analysis, design and implementation of scalable computing, clustering systems, networking and storage systems delivered as a fabric.
· Analyzing or recommending commercially available hardware and software solutions.
· Demonstrated success in automating processes and virtualization.
· M.S.E.E., M.S.C.S. or other technical degree, with a minimum of nine years of relevant professional experience, a B.S.E.E., B.S.C.S. or other technical degree, with a minimum of twelve years of relevant professional experience, or no degree with a minimum of twenty years of relevant professional experience.
Clearance:
Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role
Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.
Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems.
With over 300 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.
*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.
Why Praxis?
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don’t do things because “that’s the way we’ve always done things”; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace. We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer’s mission. We've been profitable year after year. We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do. We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best. No red tape. No micromanagement. Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better.
And then there is the...
Benefits
- Attractive total compensation package to include competitive salary and medical benefits with an option for FREE employee HSA medical plan!
- Office perks such as free soft drinks and snacks (both healthy and not-so-healthy)
- Praxis swag (annual gift certificate to purchase top brand Praxis apparel)
- 401k contribution/match: combination of profit share/contribution (3.5%) and employer match (up to 4.5%) for a total of 8%.
- Annual bonus plan
- 4 weeks Paid Time Off + 10 holidays + comp time eligibility. (30+ days of leave to start!)
- We reward longevity! On your 5th work anniversary – you will receive an additional week of PTO to 5 weeks of PTO. Making it 35+ days of leave altogether!
- On your 10th work anniversary – you will receive an additional week of PTO to 6 weeks of PTO. Making it 40+ days of leave altogether!
- At any time, your unused PTO can be traded in for $$$!
- Carryover a max of 380hours of leave from year to year. You can choose to have a sabbatical one year or trade in your unused PTO for something nice!
- Student loan repayment Assistance – COMING SOON!
- Training is a priority! Take advantage of our endless in-house training opportunities - or seek out vendor offered (paid) training opportunities like conferences, certification courses and seminars.
- Conferences (recently attended by Praxis employees): AWS Summit, IoT World, Black Hat and DefCon.
- Training & Certifications: Splunk, AWS, Big Data/Cloudera, VMWare, Scrum Master...the list of certifications goes on and on!
- Praxis University: Cyber Research, Data Analytics, IoT, AWS and RedHat course offerings and hands-on training.
- We truly believe the right work-life balance can exist, and it's here at Praxis. Our work is extremely important, but your job is just a part of who you are. When you enjoy your life outside of our walls, you're at your best the next time you walk through our doors. We do all we can to assure that happens every day.
Praxis Engineering provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.
