Associate Director, Information Technology and Data Security- Linguistic Data Consortium in SAS
About The Position
The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is an open consortium of universities, libraries, corporations and government research laboratories, based at the University of Pennsylvania. Since its founding, the LDC has played a key role in enabling the massive improvements in accuracy and utility of technologies such as speech recognition and machine translation, by creating, curating, and distributing several hundred thousand copies of several thousand datasets, covering 117 languages, to over 6,000 companies, universities and government research laboratories in more than 100 countries. We continue to help design and create new linguistic data sets, to assess human language technology system output, and to help explore new data-driven research methods, as such methods spread to new research problems in new disciplines.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 2 to 3 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
- Experience in systems administration, cloud infrastructure, data management, and technical operations is required.
- Familiarity with user and administrator roles for operating systems including Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
- Experience with cloud systems such as AWS and Azure and experience configuring, ordering, and installing new hardware and software systems is required.
Nice To Haves
- Experience coordinating activities with a range of organizations at an institution like the University of Pennsylvania is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provides Information Technology leadership for the LDC, including systems, networking, data storage, and support; implementing industry-standard solutions where appropriate and innovating where necessary.
- Manages the in-house Service Center, as well as cloud-based services and networking services.
- Supports operating systems including FreeBSD, Linux, TrueNAS/FreeNAS, Mac OSX, and Windows.
- Responsible for data and internal network security, regulatory compliance, and incident response.
- Designs, implements, and manages the lifecycle of LDC data.
- Recruits, trains, and supervises both temporary and full-time support staff, and manages assets, budgets, purchases, contracts, and vendor relationships pertaining to the computing infrastructure.
Benefits
- Health, Life, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition assistance for employees, spouses, and dependent children
- Generous retirement plans
- Time Away from Work
- Long-Term Care Insurance
- Wellness and Work-life Resources
- Professional and Personal Development
- Access to a wide range of University resources as well as cultural and recreational activities
- Discounts and Special Services
- Flexible Work Hours
- Penn Home Ownership Services
- Adoption Assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
