[TriLUG] old, but following up -- Re: Jobs in HPC and AWS design at Syngenta

[Sean Korb via TriLUG]

THanks Mark, we did and we're still hiring in China from what I understand
but they laid off my staff so I'm not quite sure how we're going to get
more stuff done with less people.  THe cloud solves all problems
apparently.  I guess nobody's seen the bill.
Well you can't save money by bringing it all back on-prem until after you
move it out so I guess that's my gig now..   Sorry I really lost track it's
been 60 hour weeks since January and my wife is really upset with me.  So
are the cats :)

sean

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:47 PM Mark R. Biggers via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Hi Sean:
>
> You and I were emailing about these jobs, a few days before I did my 2nd
> trip
> to Colombia - then I lost track!
>
> Were you able to and how did the Positions get filled?
>
> Hope all is OK, I sometimes check things on Facebook....
>
> Best,
> ----mark
>
> On 1/12/24 14:30, Sean Korb via TriLUG wrote:
> > Hi, we're looking for engineers for software and systems and HPC
> >
> >
> https://jobs.syngenta.com/job/engineering-enablement-lead-in-various-jid-8585
> >
> >
> https://jobs.syngenta.com/job/sr-systems-platform-engineer-in-various-jid-8601
> >
> > It looks like we have streamlined these reqs for general flexibility but
> > agriculture has some interesting tech from IOT to HPC and AI.  I urge you
> > to investigate.  I can describe what I do and see if you would like to
> be a
> > colleague in these capacities (I can't do it all by myself)
> >
> > We have git and jira and service now and rack tables and ansible and
> > dokuwiki. The enterprise is all Microsoft so we let them take care of
> > Windows.
> > We use slurm and RHEL variants but if you want to use anything for your
> > tools , singularity is just fine. We use modules (a touch of tcl) but I'm
> > using singularity instead of binaries for some of those. 300 named
> > bioinformatics tools, R and every language like java and some pockets of
> > perl.
> > AWS is the same skillset, some Chef mostly ansible and the infrastructure
> > is on demand via cloud formation or terraform.  We're allergic to EC2s
> but
> > vending them in Batch or Parallelcluster and Fargate is fine.
> > Infrastructure as code is how we automate.
> > We patch every quarter when not monthly or when needed. We use several
> > guessable tools for security including logging. It's a constantly
> > changing space and even though we are fully behind a firewall security
> > takes a front row seat.  Make any blast area vanishingly small and
> > replacable.
> >
>
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