System Administrator, Senior
About The Position
System Administrator, Senior The Opportunity: Your combination of people skills and system administrator expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improve the technology supporting our client? As a System Administrator on our project, you’ll support the operation, maintenance, and design of information technology resources within a laboratory for High Performance Computing ( HPC ) technology and data analytics for a research organization. You will maintain responsibility for the installation of new equipment and operating systems to best suit the needs of research to be c ond ucted and the researchers requiring support. You’ll support the review of current infrastructure to provide an overview and prepare plans for improvement and enhancement that will increase efficiency and security within the network. You will maintain responsibility for cutting-edge computing systems and the evaluation of their use for research in furtherance of the mission. Your system administrator expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. You’ll help your team better understand the network by turning met rics into information and explaining their meaning. Join us. The world can’t wait.
Requirements
- Experience configuring and managing Linux and Windows operating systems, including supporting day-to-say operations, installing operating system sof tware, troubleshooting, maintaining integrity of and configuring network components, and implementing operating systems enhancements
- Experience monitoring and maintaining systems, including compute nodes, storage, networking, and sof tware
- Experience optimizing system operations and resource utilization and performing system capacity analysis
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
- Asso cia te's degree in an Information Technology field and 12+ years of experience as a lead systems administrator, Bachelor's degree in an Information Technology field and 8+ years of experience as a lead systems administrator, or 15+ years of experience as a lead systems administrator in lieu of a degree
Nice To Haves
- Experience in shell scripting and programming in C or Python
- Experience with Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management ( SLURM )
- Experience with system automation, provisioning, storage, or optimization tools such as Ansible, Warewolf, Lustre, or BeeGFS
- Experience with Unix
- Knowledge of performance monitoring tools such as Grafana or Pro met heus
- Knowledge of setting up and executing benchmarks in an HPC environment and analyzing results
- Knowledge of network engineering
Responsibilities
- support the operation, maintenance, and design of information technology resources within a laboratory for High Performance Computing ( HPC ) technology and data analytics for a research organization
- maintain responsibility for the installation of new equipment and operating systems to best suit the needs of research to be c ond ucted and the researchers requiring support
- support the review of current infrastructure to provide an overview and prepare plans for improvement and enhancement that will increase efficiency and security within the network
- maintain responsibility for cutting-edge computing systems and the evaluation of their use for research in furtherance of the mission
- identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network
- help your team better understand the network by turning met rics into information and explaining their meaning
Benefits
- health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
