High Performance Computing Data Storage Administrator III - 530900
About The Position
The High Performance Computing Data Storage Administrator III administers and optimizes enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC) storage systems. The role designs and implements storage pools, filesystems, and services; leads storage upgrades, expansions, migrations, and technology refreshes; and deploys, configures, and maintains production parallel filesystems. It resolves complex issues involving metadata, input/output, throughput, latency, capacity, and availability. The position develops and maintains data lifecycle workflows for high-speed ingest, tiered storage, archiving, replication, backup, disaster recovery, and long-term preservation. It coordinates large-scale data movement across HPC clusters, cloud providers, national laboratories, and research collaborators; develops automation; and implements storage monitoring and security practices. The administrator also provides technical consultation to researchers and staff. The role provides administration, operational, and technical leadership for the University's HPC storage infrastructure, supporting research in computational science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-intensive fields. It partners with HPC systems administrators, network administrators, application administrators, cybersecurity staff, and researchers to deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and workload-optimized storage services. The administrator leads implementation projects, improves automation, optimizes storage performance, and mentors lower-level storage administrators.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED and eight years of systems administration or storage administration experience; or associate's degree and six years of such experience; or bachelor's degree and four years of such experience; or master's degree and two years of such experience.
- Valid U.S. driver's license.
- At least 19 years of age at time of hire and an acceptable Motor Vehicle Report in compliance with University policies; applicants under 21 will have some driving restrictions.
- Strong Linux systems administration skills.
- Demonstrated troubleshooting and analytical abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data science, or a related computational discipline.
- Four or more years of experience administering enterprise Linux systems, HPC storage environments, or large-scale distributed storage platforms.
- Experience supporting production storage systems in a multi-user environment.
- Experience working in research computing IT or a scientific computing environment.
- Demonstrated expertise administering one or more parallel filesystems and supporting large-scale, multi-petabyte storage infrastructures.
- Experience supporting AI and machine learning infrastructure and high-speed research networking used for large data transfers.
- Familiarity with cloud-based storage platforms.
- Experience with scripting and automation.
Responsibilities
- Administer and optimize enterprise and high-performance computing storage systems.
- Design and implement storage pools, filesystems, and services.
- Lead storage upgrades, expansions, migrations, and technology refreshes.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain production parallel filesystems.
- Resolve complex storage issues involving metadata, input/output, throughput, latency, capacity, and availability.
- Develop and maintain data lifecycle workflows for high-speed ingest, tiered storage, archiving, replication, backup, disaster recovery, and long-term preservation.
- Coordinate large-scale data movement across HPC clusters, cloud providers, national laboratories, and research collaborators.
- Develop automation and implement storage monitoring and security practices.
- Provide technical consultation to researchers and staff.
- Partner with HPC systems administrators, network administrators, application administrators, cybersecurity staff, and researchers to support reliable, scalable, secure, and optimized storage services.
- Lead implementation projects, improve automation, and optimize storage performance.
- Mentor lower-level storage administrators.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
