IT Systems Engineer V

About the role

The University of Louisville is hiring an IT Systems Engineer V reporting to the Associate Vice Provost in ITS Research Computing department. This position is responsible for management and administration of the university’s central research computing infrastructure, including supercomputing clusters, software, data storage, and networking.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for design, operation and administration of highly complex university research supercomputing and storage systems, and development of 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
• Affiliate 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
• Advises and assists faculty, staff and graduate students on effective uses of academic and supercomputing technology for large and complex applications, and assists 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

• Highly experienced individual with a background in Linux system administration, supercomputing clusters, parallel file systems (Lustre preferred) and university research applications
• Requires a background in Linux system administration, supercomputing clusters, parallel file systems (Lustre preferred) and university research applications

Qualifications

• 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

• Experience with a physical layer network
• Centos/RedHat Enterprise Linux
• DNS/DHCP
• Ldap
• Linux Virtual Machine and Container Management
• Firewalls
• Experience administering servers, networks, and backup systems
• The desire to obtain new skills and work with a minimum of supervision in a collegiate work environment
• Advanced degree preferred
• Experience with scientific computing tools, libraries, and frameworks is a plus (e.g., MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, VASP, Gaussian, and Nextflow, Open OnDemand)
• Experience with the installation, configuration and administration of Docker and Singularity
• Experience with the installation, configuration and administration of cluster and job/resource management software (e.g., Slurm, Warewulf, DUO)
• Linux server installation, configuration and administration (OpenHPC, Redhat Enterprise 7/8, CentOS 7/8/Stream, Ubuntu), experience with SELinux is a plus
• Parallel and distributed file system (Lustre) experience is a plus, as well as knowledge of Ceph
• Scripting in BASH, Python
• Understanding of basic networking related to HPC systems
• Experienced at installing and using databases – Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB
• Familiarity with CMMC 2.0, CUI, and ITAR

Benefits

This position supports defense-related projects. An offer of employment is contingent upon the selected candidate being eligible for and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance (Secret or higher) and any necessary export control licenses to perform the job functions.

Pay

Target Compensation Maximum: $130,488.00
Target Compensation Minimum: $86,992.00
Compensation Will Be Commensurate To Candidate Experience.

Schedule

Full time