[wplug-jobs] Linux Systems Administrator at Pitt
David Koes
dkoes at pitt.edu
Tue Mar 27 14:30:03 EDT 2012
My department at Pitt is looking for a linux systems admin. Information
below. I'm not involved in the hiring process, but feel free to contact
me if you have any questions.
-Dave
https://www.pittsource.com/postings/56497
Hiring Range $42,840.00 - $70,308.00
This position is responsible for effective installation/configuration,
operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related
high performance computing infrastructure at the Department of
Computational & Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of
Pittsburgh.
The individual will provide primary technical support for the
Department’s computing resources, in addition to participating in
technical research and development to enable continuing innovation
within the infrastructure.
In addition, this position will be responsible for the administration of
several Beowulf clusters running Linux; provide system and application
support to scientists, researchers, and graduate students; implement the
design and architecture of the high performance environment working with
a committee; and assist faculty members with technical issues in the
initiation and planning phases of their research projects.
Requirements include: experience configuring and maintaining the Linux
operating system to provide a high-performance environment through
clusters and workstations; experience with Linux to configure private
networks; expertise in UNIX scripting languages such as BASH, PERL,
and/or Python, experience with configuration of applications related to
parallel computing such as MPI, MPICH2, LAM and with queuing software
such as GridEngine, OpenPBS, or LSF; experience building and configuring
open source and commercial software through makefiles and rpm; basic
knowledge of C and Fortran programming languages; knowledge of version
control systems such as Subversion; experience installing/maintaining
third party software and license management through flexLM; knowledge of
SSH, rsync, TCP/IP, iptables filtering; experience in technical writing
and documentation. System Administrator/Analyst with degree(s) in
Computer Science, Engineering or relevant technical areas preferred.
Other desirable, but not required qualifications are: experience
administering systems in an academic or research environment; experience
with VMware vSphere; knowledge of C++ and Java; database (MySQL) use,
design and administration; experience working with Infiniband networks
and OFED stack, multi-terabyte file systems (XFS).
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