IT Systems Engineer V

Department: Information Technology Services – Research Computing
Location: Belknap Campus
Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Regular

About the role

The University of Louisville is hiring an IT Systems Engineer V who will report to the Associate Vice Provost in the ITS Research Computing department. This position manages and administers the university’s central research computing infrastructure, including supercomputing clusters, software, and scalable storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and manage highly complex university research supercomputing and storage systems, and develop technical documentation
• Manage a suite of specialized research software, including installation and administration of research software licenses and maintenance of OS and system support software
• Assist with specification, ordering, and installation of new hardware, storage, and associated networking
• Perform problem analysis and resolution, monitor and tune performance, configure job schedulers (SLURM) to optimize operation and performance of supercomputing resources
• Advise and assist faculty, staff, and graduate students on effective uses of academic and supercomputing technology for large and complex applications, and assist with development, debugging, and optimization of specialized codes for research
• Work with faculty to develop research grant proposals to enhance research computing resources and fund extensions to existing centrally-managed systems
• Consult with users on handling protected data and support the management of the secure enclave on-prem and in Google Cloud
• Complete special projects and other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and eight (8) years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills

• Management and administration of Linux-based supercomputing clusters and scalable parallel file systems (Lustre preferred)
• University research applications and software
• Scripting in BASH, Python
• Linux server installation, configuration, and administration (OpenHPC, RedHat Enterprise 7/8, CentOS 7/8/Stream, Ubuntu); experience with SELinux is a plus
• Cluster and job/resource management software (e.g., Slurm, Warewulf, DUO)
• Linux Virtual Machine and Container Management, Firewalls
• Installation, configuration, and administration of Docker and Singularity
• Scientific computing tools, libraries, and frameworks (e.g., MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, VASP, Gaussian, Nextflow, Open OnDemand)
• Parallel and distributed file systems (Lustre, Ceph)
• Installing and using databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Configuring NIST 800-171 compliant HPC systems (preferred)

Pay

Target compensation range: $86,992.00 – $130,488.00