Senior Systems Administrator

Job Posting Title:

Senior Systems Administrator

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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 Large Scale Systems group is seeking a Systems Administrator to provide technical expertise to TACC’s High Performance Computing (HPC) facility. These activities will enhance the research programs of the UT academic research community, the NSF ACCESS community, and other UT partner institutions. This position requires advanced knowledge of storage hardware configuration, parallel filesystem design and operation, and Linux systems administration. Preferred qualifications include expertise in working with Linux-based clusters, high performance computing (HPC) software environments, high-speed interconnects such as InfiniBand, and parallel file systems such as Lustre or BeeGFS. A significant grasp of Linux/Unix shells and scripting languages will also be necessary to perform in this role.

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.

Must be eligible to work in the US on a full-time basis for any employer without sponsorship.

Purpose

This position will be responsible for evaluating new storage architectures, systems, and software tools to determine the best techniques for achieving performance in addition to identifying future acquisitions targets.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and expand existing production storage resources
• Provide project leadership role on production storage systems
• Provide support to current systems administration staff on Linux clusters
• Work with members of the LSS group to diagnose problems and performance issues specific to storage hardware, parallel filesystems, and IO performance
• Work with members of the HPC group to diagnose problems and performance issues specific to storage performance for user code that is considered IO-bound.
• Evaluate new storage architectures, systems, and software tools to determine the best techniques for achieving performance and to identify future acquisition targets
• Respond to emergency situations involving system problems, downtime and security breaches
• Create and maintain documentation aligned with TACC’s workflow tracking methodology
• Create and maintain code and configuration files in version controlled systems.
• Perform additional storage-related tasks, as needed

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of relevant professional experience
• Familiarity with system software package management, patch