Research Computing Support Specialist
About The Position
The Faculty of Arts & Science is seeking a Research Computing Support Specialist to provide research computing support, computer system administration, network administration, programming/scripting/software development (especially in Python), and high-level research technical support services for the Aspuru-Guzik group. This role involves acting as a project leader for complex IT projects within the research group, offering technical leadership, system and software expertise, and support. The Department of Computer Science, established in 1964, is a world-renowned department known for its high-impact research and diverse programs. The Faculty of Arts & Science itself is a leading academic division with a strong legacy of innovation and discovery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline, and/or acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum five (5) years of recent and related UNIX/Linux system administration experience in a highly technical and complex heterogeneous IT environment developing computing solutions preferably for a computing academic discipline
- Demonstrated experience writing, modifying, and correcting scripts on Linux/Unix platform(s)
- Demonstrated experience with GPU deployment/use for AI, virtualization, printing, backups, research programming, LLMs, computational clusters, security, networking, open source software, databases, automated operating system installs, fileservers/data storage, and technical documentation
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and troubleshooting complex IT and system problems
- Experience providing project leadership, including technical leadership, system expertise, and support to other technical staff projects
- Experience collaborating on IT purchase recommendations and independently costing IT projects
- Experience developing computer code in Python
- Experience deploying application containers/virtualization
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to deal with people in a tactful and effective manner and the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people at their own level, explaining possibly complex technical concepts to a wide variety of non-technical users
- Good problem-solving skills, detail oriented
- Strong leadership skills, especially the ability to take personal responsibility to establish and maintain the goals and mission of the research group(s) served
- Proven ability to provide expert technical resources to others
- Clear and demonstrated ability to design, plan, analyse and improve systems
- Ability to follow good system administration discipline and practice
- Typing/keyboarding ability and ability to lift/move desktop and server computer equipment
- Ability to adapt as needed in a highly dynamic research-intensive Computer Science environment
- Must maintain broad technical knowledge and experience in a rapidly-changing field
- Ability to prioritize and meet multiple deadlines
Nice To Haves
- Experience using HPC clusters
- Experience with private and /or public cloud
Responsibilities
- Leading and planning IT projects
- Developing project schedules including milestones, critical path, timelines, deliverables and reporting
- Coordinating tasks for projects and other strategic initiatives with stakeholders
- Analyzing, troubleshooting and testing highly complex systems
- Analyzing, recommending and designing internal network solutions to meet client needs
- Planning and implementing IT systems independently
- Analyzing business and operational requirements to plan the implementation of new IT systems
- Serving as a resource on specific issues to a group of specialists
Benefits
- Grant - Continuing Appointment
- USW Pay Band 17 -- $109,761. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $140,365.
- Alternative Work Arrangement may be eligible
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
