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Job Title:
High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Administrator
Company Name:
The University of Iowa
Street:
2800 University Capitol Centre
City:
Iowa City
State:
IA
Zip:
52242
Contact Name:
Peggy Streb
Job Location:
US-Iowa
Job Title:
High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Administrator
Job Code:
57184
Position Type:
Full Time
Travel Required:
10%
Number of Openings:
1
Experience Required:
5 - 10 yrs
Benefits:
About ITS Campus Technology Services , visit: http://www.its.uiowa.edu/
- ITS offers competitive salaries and an attractive, flexible and friendly work environment, along with the University’s comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
- The UI offers regular employees a variety of health insurance plans including both traditional indemnity and managed care plans.
- The UI matches regular employees’ TIAA-CREF regular retirement contributions at 2:1, for a total of a 15% of annual salary contribution.
- UI regular employees enjoy a liberal vacation and sick leave policy:
- 24 vacation days per year
- 18 sick days per year
- 11 paid holidays per year (9 scheduled and 2 personal)
- Accrued sick leave in certain circumstances can be converted to vacation leave.
- The flexible benefits program for Faculty, Professional & Scientific, and Merit Supervisory Exempt staff allows you to direct your money where you want it to go, e.g., dependent care, choice of health care plans, dental, life insurance, etc.
- More detailed information is available on the Benefits Office web site at: http://www.uiowa.edu/hr/benefits/index.htmlhttp://www.uiowa.edu/hr/benefits/index.html
- The selection process will include a credential and criminal background check on final candidates.
- To apply please visit: https://jobs.uiowa.edu/ and reference the position by the System Admin. and System Programmer, Level II, PC37, pay grade 09 or requisition number 57184.
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Job Description:
The University of Iowa Information Technology Services organization (ITS), a campus-wide provider of
technology services for academic, research, and service missions, is seeking a High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Administrator which functions under the direction of the manager for Research Services. This position is classified as a System Administration & System Programming Level II (PC37, pay grade 9). Individuals at this level work independently, with guidance from the manager, to perform routine and advanced administrative tasks and provide formal and informal training in assigned areas.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Designs, configures, documents, and provides highly specialized expertise in the installation, deployment, and operation of high performance computing (HPC) and storage systems. Guidance and support is provided for testing activities, and migration of applications from test to production environments.
- Software selection, install and support
- Tests and recommends viable software in order to solve researcher’s problems.
- Installs software in an easily maintainable manner with supportability in mind.
- Analyze and resolve issues relating to software compatibility, usage, or bugs.
- Performs system upgrades and maintenance to maintain system integrity
- Explores new options regarding system capabilities.
- Helps develop and administers user and system software for equitable system usage.
- Researcher consulting
- Educate researchers on system usage and policies.
- Facilitate system overview classes for groups of new researchers.
- Assess new researcher’s needs and assure system compatibility.
- Troubleshoot and resolve researcher problems with system or code usage.
- Intra-institutional collaboration
- Works in close collaboration with other campus research constituents to further University Strategic Plan.
- Assists with HPC policy development and implementation of those policies.
- Working in a matrix environment, continues to build cross campus relationships in order to further research on campus and support inter-disciplinary research efforts.
- Inter-institutional collaboration
- Utilizes inter-institutional HPC relationships to solve complex issues.
- Continuously develop new contacts to further collaboration efforts.
- As part of a team, researches vendor options and makes purchase recommendations regarding vendor service relationships, technology and tools.
- Position assists with management and maintenance of research data center facilities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and systems administration and/or HPC systems administration experience (typically 3-5 years) is necessary. An equivalent combination of education and related experience in technical support may also serve to meet these minimum requirements.
- Knowledge and experience of Linux/Unix high performance computing (HPC) applications, and Linux clustering technologies.
- Knowledge of parallel file system technologies.
- Knowledge and experience in designing and operating HPC networked multi-user systems.
- Ability to consult with and train HPC users in application and operating system fundamentals.
- In depth knowledge of queuing systems and resource managers.
- In depth understanding of fair-share policies, reservation mechanisms and batch processing.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve scheduling issues in a timely manner for mission critical job runs.
- Knowledge of system processes to maintain smooth system operation and throughput.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with technical and non-technical staff.
- Ability and willingness to perform new tasks in a quickly changing environment.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of web design and programming.
- In depth knowledge of condor scheduling and systems.
- Skill in planning for large conference presentations.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- The selection process will include a credential and criminal background check on final candidates.
- To apply please visit: https://jobs.uiowa.edu/ and reference the position by the System Admin. and System Programmer, Level II, PC37, pay grade 09 or requisition number 57184.
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