Technology Engineer / Advanced Technology Engineer
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Integrate and operate computing farm hardware and software
- Optimize and maintain high-performance storage systems in support of data analysis activities
- Deploy and operate monitoring tools in support of data movement activities
- Assist with the integration and operation of a federated identity management (FIM) system
- Assist in the evaluation and adoption of new technologies
Position Requirements
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in physics, computer science or related discipline
- A minimum of 3 years full-time relevant experience
- Prior experience with Linux system administration and modern data analysis tools
- Prior experience with high-performance disk (Lustre, GPFS, etc) storage systems
- Experience with data analytics and system performance monitoring tools (ELK, Grafana, etc)
- Prior experience with deployment and operation of FIM (Active Directory, FreeIPA, openLDAP, etc) tools and services
- Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment with time-sensitive deadlines
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Experience with workload management system (Slurm, HTCondor, LSF, etc)
- Experience with Jupyter notebooks and JupyterHub
- Experience with collaborative tools (Gitea, Mattermost, DropBox, Confluence, Slack, etc )
- Experience with software and services such as:
- Virtualization and container software (RHEVM, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc)
- Configuration management and version control software (Puppet, Cobbler, Ansible, etc)
- Data transfer and network access protocols (GridFTP, Globus Online, Ssh, NX, VNC, etc)
- Object-oriented storage (S3, Swift, Ceph, etc)
- Software development experience (Python, C/C++, Java)
Environmental, Health & Safety Requirements:
- Ability to perform physically demanding work occasionally
OTHER INFORMATION: (add if applicable)
- Occasional travel (foreign and domestic) is required
- Â Appointmentt level will be commensurate with qualifications and experience