Cyber Infrastructure Engineer - Mellon College of Science - High Performance Computing - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Carnegie Mellon University•Pittsburgh, PA

19d•Onsite

About The Position

Carnegie Mellon University is seeking creative and capable individuals to join its highly experienced Advanced Systems and Operations team as a Cyber Infrastructure Engineer. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, provides researchers with access to powerful systems for advanced computational research. The successful candidate will collaborate with the research community and key IT staff to design and implement next-generation infrastructure, plan and manage automations, and maintain current PSC resources. This role is at the nexus of technology, research, and software development, dedicated to helping the scientific community solve challenging problems. The Advanced Systems and Operations group is responsible for the integration and operations of computational assets central to this pursuit.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Experience with Linux systems administration
Experience with file system administration.
Experience with network switching and routing.
Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, BASH)
Desire to teach, learn and lead for continuing team development.
A combination of education and relevant experience from which comparable knowledge is demonstrated may be considered.
Successful background check

Nice To Haves

Experience writing and/or extending systems administration software (e.g. utilities, libraries, plugins)
Experience with parallel file systems (e.g. Lustre, GPFS)
Experience in high performance computing (HPC) environment.
Experience with configuration management software such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible for systems and networking.
Experience with virtualization management infrastructure such as oVirt, VMWare, KVM
Experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, OpenStack, or Azure.
Experience with containerize execution such as Singularity, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

Conceives, designs, implements, administers, optimizes, and monitors existing and future HPC systems and the cyber infrastructure that supports them.
Collaborate with research teams and head technology responsibilities for grant implementation.
Build relationships with research community and external vendors.
Assess and provide advanced technical support to research community for ongoing and future systems and/or application needs.
Contribute to best practices, documentation, and published papers.
Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of issues.
Engineer tools and automations to assist with maintenance tasks.
Research and explore next-generation technologies for future implementation.
Perform operating system software upgrades, deployments and troubleshooting of the project servers and desktop workstations.
Other related duties as assigned.