Job Description

Job Summary
Installs new software releases and system upgrades, evaluates, and installs patches, and resolves system related problems. Maintains data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity. System administration and support of Research Computing and CHPC at the University of Utah.

The Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) at the University of Utah provides advanced scientific computing services to a broad set of leading-edge, computationally oriented faculty, research staff, and graduate students in several research disciplines on campus. The CHPC team includes a diverse set of systems and network experts, scientific programming consultants, and user services leads. CHPC operates several computational clusters, virtual machine farms and storage arrays. We are also starting to leverage public cloud services for researchers.

About UIT: University Information Technology (UIT), the central IT service provider for the University of Utah, reports to the U’s Chief Information Officer and is responsible for many of the U’s shared IT services including the wired and wireless network; Campus Information Services (CIS) portal; UMail, telephone, and online collaboration; high performance and research computing; information security; software licensing; and a host of other IT systems and services.

UIT is committed to creating a workplace culture that values equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), and we believe that everyone plays a role in fostering EDI, every day. EDI isn’t just the right thing for our employees and the university community; it’s also the smart thing. It empowers us to provide the best IT services for our students and their families, staff, faculty, clinicians, and patients and their families.

About the University of Utah: Located in Salt Lake City, the U is the flagship institution of the State of Utah’s system of higher education, home to arts and museum venues and a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Skiing and snowboarding opportunities are a short distance from campus, and opportunities to pursue activities from biking to hiking to fishing abound. Salt Lake City is home to the Utah Symphony and Opera, Ballet West, professional sports teams, and a wide range of other cultural and recreational activities.

University of Utah Benefits

· Health, dental, and wellness coverage
· Automatic and immediately vested 14.2% employer contribution to personal retirement account (401a)
· Free public transportation pass (Utah Transit Authority)
· Paid leave time
· Reduced tuition benefits for employee and family members

More information: https://www.hr.utah.edu/benefits/

Responsibilities
Provide system administration maintenance and development in a technical and diverse environment including one or more of the following:
Administer system to process data backups to object (Ceph/S3) storage
Windows server and Active Directory administration
HPC Cluster administration including batch (slurm), GPU, and parallel filesystem support
Virtual Machine hypervisor/cluster administration
Provisioning and maintenance of virtual machines and bare metal stand-alone servers
File system support (local, network and parallel)
· Contribute to the overall security of systems for the department
· Contribute to the overall monitoring, metrics, and reporting needs of the department.
· Review log files for indication of inappropriate or unusual activity.
· Attend departmental & institutional meetings and conferences and participate, contribute and/or present as appropriate, network with peer institutes and form collaborative relationships.

This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.
Work Environment and Level of Frequency typically required
Nearly Continuously: Office environment.
Physical Requirements and Level of Frequency that may be required
Nearly Continuously: Sitting, hearing, listening, talking.
Often: Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking.
Seldom: Bending, reaching overhead.
Minimum Qualifications
Requires a bachelor’s degree in a related area or equivalency with at least 2 years of experience in the field or in a related area.

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.
Preferences
Departmental preference:
· Strong system administration skills in a heterogeneous computing environment for a very diverse multidisciplinary academic environment required.
· Experience in Unix/Linux system administration and Linux network understanding required.
· Experience in system administration of Windows servers and Active Directory preferred.
· A commitment to provide excellent customer service required.
· Demonstrate ability to be a flexible, organized, thoughtful, and proactive team player who can work with minimal guidance as well as strong abilities in communication and in customer service.
· Comfortable working in a team environment supporting technologies critical to the research mission of the University.
· Ability to maintain a culture of openness, trust, and transparency while ensuring a safe and secure environment for our customers.
· Ability to provide technical support, trouble shoot problems, install software, and provide solutions in support of the CHPC user community.
Type Benefited Staff