- Pay
- $65,000 — $100,000 USD per year
Employer job description
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Role Summary
Responsible for the setup, maintenance, security, and day-to-day operation of a technical/research lab environment (servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and lab-issued workstations), ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance with organizational policies.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, and maintain lab hardware (servers, storage arrays, NICs, switches) and software (OS images, drivers, monitoring tools)
- Manage user access, accounts, and permissions across lab systems
- Monitor system health, performance, and capacity (CPU, memory, storage, network utilization)
- Troubleshoot hardware/software issues and coordinate with vendors for support/RMAs
- Maintain documentation: network diagrams, asset inventories, configuration baselines, SOPs
- Implement and enforce security policies (patching, firewall rules, access controls)
- Manage backups, disaster recovery procedures, and data retention policies
- Support researchers/engineers with environment setup for experiments, benchmarks, or testing (e.g., provisioning compute nodes, storage volumes, network configs)
- Track licensing, warranties, and hardware lifecycle (procurement to decommissioning)
- Coordinate lab scheduling/resource allocation if shared across teams
- Required Skills/Qualifications
- Strong Linux administration experience (Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS)
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VLANs, bonding/LACP, basic troubleshooting)
- Experience with storage systems (SAN/NAS, parallel filesystems like Lustre/GPFS a plus)
- Scripting ability (Bash, Python) for automation
- Familiarity with virtualization/containerization (KVM, Docker) is a plus
- Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix)
- Understanding of hardware components (CPUs, NUMA architecture, PCIe, NICs/RDMA)
- Good documentation and communication skills
- Nice to Have
- Experience with HPC/AI infrastructure (InfiniBand, RDMA, GPU clusters)
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet)
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