[PLUG-JOBS] Research Computing System Administrator at OHSU, Competitive Salary, Full Time and Full Benefits

[Zak]

 About us

We are researchers at Oregon Health and Science University that study
clinical disorders and diseases. A group of us at CSLU work on algorithms
for speech and language processing, and apply these to neurological
disorders for diagnostic, remedial, and assistive purposes, including
autism spectrum disorders, age-related cognitive illness, augmentative and
assistive communications technologies, and speech synthesis. Our education
offerings include a doctoral program in computer science and graduates from
the program find employment in Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, and Nuance, among
others. Another group of us at OCSSB, with a few researchers overlapping in
both groups, focus on genomics, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. We work
with large amounts of clinical and web data and readily adopt innovations
in big data. In this realm, we closely collaborate with Intel. We are
looking for someone who can not only manage our current resources but also
plan its future development. We are offering a competitive salary &
benefits package for this full-time.
 About you

You will be administering a Linux high performance computing cluster (HPCC)
as well as a Lustre distributed file system in a dynamic academic
environment. You will be helping us continually develop our computational
resources to meet our growing needs. You are excited by the prospect of
being involved in cutting-edge computer science research.

In addition, you will be responsible for managing a medium-sized research
computing network, consisting of commercial file servers, network switches,
printers, DNS and DHCP. As part of this, you will be working directly with
IT personnel in our University. This part of the job will be both technical
and social, as you will be representing us and our research computing needs
within a large and complex organizational context.

As such, you have top-notch communication skills, and enjoy learning about
a wide variety of technical and scientific subjects--- and then are good at
explaining what you've learned to somebody else. You are extremely
self-directed, and thrive when working independently. You excel at setting
and addressing multiple priorities simultaneously, and are detail-oriented.
You think that documentation is more than an afterthought.

Finally, you are excited by the prospect of setting the direction of, and
making your mark on, the computing infrastructure that makes our research
possible.
Responsibilities:

   - Work closely with faculty, staff, and students to identify and meet
   organizational research computing needs.
   - Configure maintain & monitor existing network infrastructure including
   file servers, NIS authentication servers, networked backup devices, etc.
   - Configure, maintain & monitor HPCC infrastructure including
   computation nodes, a distributed file system and related software.
   - Configure, maintain & monitor system backups and disaster recovery.
   - Configure, maintain & monitor a Hadoop system.
   - Perform regular upgrades and rebuilds of software, occasionally at
   off-hours for minimizing interruption.
   - Collaborate with existing departmental and organizational support to
   co-ordinate and plan system growth.
   - Support faculty, staff, and students in their use of our computing
   infrastructure.
   - Liaise with other IT personnel elsewhere in the University.
   - Configure, maintain & monitor network for optimum performance &
   security.
   - Keep abreast of technical knowledge needed to support new equipment,
   software and systems.

Requirements:

   - At least 2 years of system or network administration in a
   heterogeneous computing environment, or related experience.
   - Skilled in administering and managing Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS/RHEL) and
   Mac environments.
   - Knowledge of system and network administration including NIS, Lustre
   file systems, RAID storage systems, PXE boot, DHCP, DNS, Apache, PHP, mail,
   Amanda, RT, Nagios and Ganglia.
   - Familiarity managing and/or using HPCC administrative tools such as
   Condor.
   - Knowledge or familiarity with Hadoop is a *significant* plus.
   - High degree of analytical abilities, diagnostic skills and technical
   aptitude.
   - Excellent communication skills.
   - Must excel at working independently.
   - Ability to be on-call 24 x 7 for rare occasions.
   - Familiarity with Windows Server is useful, especially with VMWare
   console, Active Directory, print server, and WTS.
   - Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or significant
   work experience.

Location:

OHSU, 20000 NW Walker Rd, Beaverton, OR 97006
Application:

Email resume and contact information for three professional references to
zakshafran at gmail dot com and bedricks at ohsu dot edu.
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