Research IT Engineer III

University of Florida•Gainesville, FL

9d•$82,000 - $114,000•Hybrid

About The Position

UF Information Technology (UFIT) is seeking a professional-level Research IT Engineer III to join Research Computing, a unit within UFIT. This position provides direct support to faculty, staff, and their teams to accomplish their research and teaching mission by optimal and efficient use of HiPerGator services, the primary university resource for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI). The position supports the complex, high-performance, and data-intensive computing systems in support of advanced scientific, engineering, and scholarly research at the University of Florida. The activities will include system administration (primarily Linux), including operating system, firmware, and hardware installation, operation, and maintenance. Employment with UFIT provides an excellent opportunity to work with other employees dedicated and focused on understanding and interpreting the technological needs of the University of Florida’s innovative and inspirational community. The position is in Gainesville, FL with flexible work arrangements possible. These are not remote positions. UF has been operating HiPerGator, for close to a decade. HiPerGator has become a critical service for UF because of the growth of the community of researchers, faculty, students and collaborators that UFRC serves not only in size but also in the breadth of research domains. The workloads running on HiPerGator cover a wide range of research disciplines, from physical science and engineering to medicine and drug discovery, as well as business, law, arts and humanities. The demand for HiPerGator’s computing power to carry out research in foundational and use-inspired AI has also dramatically increased with UF’s AI Initiative and the recent success of generative AI such as ChatGPT in all aspects of human activity.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area and two years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent and six years of experience. Appropriate college coursework or vocational/technical training may substitute at an equivalent rate for the required experience, but does not negate the minimum degree requirement(s).
System administration (primarily Linux), including operating system, firmware, and hardware installation, operation, and maintenance.

Nice To Haves

IT Systems Management
Accuracy And Attention To Detail
Problem Solving
Flexibility And Adaptability

Responsibilities

Install, operate, and manage the heterogeneous set of computing, storage, and networking resources, both hardware and software operated by UFIT – Research Computing
Participate in development and implementation of policies, procedures, and software governing system resources access, allocation, use, and services.
Collaborate and coordinate on various tasks with other teams inside UFIT RC and other UFIT units such as network services and identity management.