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The Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) at Emory University is a leading center for public health research and education in the United States. The School provides its researchers and collaborators with a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment to aid in the pursuit of large-scale, scientific computational tasks. This environment consists of a 140-node HPC Linux-based cluster, with over 4000 cores and 1 Petabyte of data storage. We are seeking a Linux systems administrator to join our support team. In this role, the sysadmin will support both end-users with technical problem solving and general cluster usage as well as HPC systems monitoring and maintenance. With a focus on scientific computation in support of cutting-edge research, there are many learning opportunities in a steadily growing environment.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plans and implements one or more muli-platform operating systems, utilities, and related software to meet organizational needs.
• May be responsible for applications on dedicated servers.
• Ensures the availability, integrity and reliability of assigned systems.

ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:

 

Core Responsibilities

• Providing solutions to issues reported by RSPH’s community of HPC users in a timely manner.
• Systems administration of HPC servers and services as a member of a team.
  Management of physical hardware in on-premise datacenter. Requires occasional on-site presence, lifting and reaching into tight spaces.
• Learning and keeping current with HPC technologies, such as job-scheduling and parallel file system management.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Five years of operating systems analysis/administration experience OR a bachelor's degree and three years of operating systems analysis/administration experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably with a scientific computing or Data Science emphasis.
• 2 or more years of production, work-related or academic Linux systems experience, including:
• Extensive command-line systems administration/use.
  ○ User and group account administration. LDAP experience is a plus.
  ○ Building (from source code), installing, maintaining and troubleshooting application-level Linux and scientific software.
  ○ Installation of Linux
  ○ Use of various Linux package management systems.
• Intermediate shell programming ability required. Experience with Linux shell/Bash and Python preferred.
• Ability to lift 1U servers (up to 50 lbs) for installation and servicing required.
• Familiarity with containerization, such as Singularity, is useful.

• Programming experience with applications such as R, Numpy/Pandas, and MATLAB.

• Educational and/or research institution experience.

NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University location as needed and at times, on short notice.  Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.

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