ACS Storage Manager

Job Posting Title:

ACS Storage Manager

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Hiring Department:

Texas Advanced Computing Center

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

PICKLE RESEARCH CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the leading supercomputing centers in the world, supporting advances in computational research by thousands of researchers and students. TACC staff help researchers and educators use advanced computing, visualization, and storage technologies effectively, and conduct research and development to make these technologies more powerful, more reliable, and easier to use. TACC staff also educate and train the next generation of researchers, empowering them to make discoveries that advance knowledge and change the world.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center fosters a culture of innovation, passion, and fun by encouraging staff members to actively collaborate to investigate the latest technologies, team up for charities, and celebrate successes together. TACC promotes a healthy workplace by helping employees achieve balance between their personal and professional lives to increase employee engagement, job satisfaction, and overall well-being. 

Candidates will need to upload a resume, letter of interest, and the names of three references to apply for this position. 

UT Austin offers a competitive benefits package that includes:  

• 100% employer-paid basic medical coverage 
• Retirement contributions  
• Paid vacation and sick time 
• Paid holidays 

Please visit our Human Resources (HR) website to learn more about the total benefits offered.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

Purpose

The Manager for the new storage-focused group in the Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) area at TACC will provide technical expertise and leadership to an experienced team deploying, administering and operating various storage platforms that support the various production systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for supervising staff in this new storage group as well as providing technical and organizational expertise. The ideal candidate will be an excellent problem solver, have strong communication skills, help plan future system designs and work well in a team environment.

Responsibilities

We are looking for talented and inspired individuals who are passionate about the mission of TACC. The successful candidate will:

• Contribute technically to the group providing storage systems administration for HPC systems, data collections, and tape archive
• Create and maintain documentation aligned with TACC’s workflow tracking methodology
• Interface well with other groups/collaborate with leaders of other areas at TACC
• Gain general knowledge of all TACC production systems, with focus on storage
• Maintain support contracts/approve purchases/interface with vendors for storage platform design and operation
• Manage group responsibilities; lead and mentor a group of junior and senior system administrators

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate degree in computer science or other science/engineering field
• 10+ years demonstrated experience with large scale storage platforms for HPC Linux-based clustered systems
• 2+ years of experience as a technical lead, project manager, or supervisor
• Extensive experience running multi-petabyte parallel storage filesystems such as Lustre/GPFS/BeeGFS and knowledge of the various large-scale storage technologies such as flash and tape archives
• Experience in Linux systems administration including system software package management, software/kernel patching/compilation, hardware diagnostics, backups, and failure-recovery procedures
• Proficient with Bash scripting to automate system tasks, and programming scripting languages such as Perl, Python
• Demonstrates excellent verbal/written communications skills
• Must be diplomatic, organized and work will different