High Performance Computing Linux Systems Engineer
High Performance Computing Linux Systems Engineer
The University of Vermont (UVM) is looking for an experienced Linux systems engineer / administrator to help build state-of-the-art high performance computing (HPC) solutions for our researchers. The VACC has three advanced clusters, with thousands of compute cores and large-scale GPU clusters. We are preparing for a major upgrade to our traditional CPU-based systems and are planning the addition of a large-scale in-memory sharded database cluster.
We are looking for someone who can join our team and help design, build, configure, and run the Vermont Advanced Computing Core’s (VACC) cluster hardware and software. This position will also help researchers effectively use the resources available, help ensure faculty needs are being met, and recommend changes to improve research services.
The University of Vermont, established in 1791, is located 90 miles south of Montreal between the Adirondack and Green Mountains on the shores of Lake Champlain. Burlington, Vermont, a city of 50,000, is consistently recognized for its quality of life, from four season outdoor recreation to cultural events. Given the occasional hands-on nature of supporting this hardware, we desire candidates who can come to our Burlington campus when needed.
UVM is a comprehensive research university comprising eight schools and colleges, and offers its employees competitive salaries, outstanding benefits including tuition remission, and a superior academic workplace.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in technology related field such as Computer Science plus at least four years of systems experience in a large-scale server environment, or equivalent level of knowledge, training, and experience.
- Thorough knowledge of Linux operating systems, network architecture and Linux shell scripting.
- Demonstrated experience deploying effective research computing systems required.
- Experience building and packaging open source software from source.
- Configuration management experience.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills, including system and network debugging experience.
- Effective customer service ethic, communication skills and collaborative teamwork with peer sysadmins required.
Any of the following qualifications would strengthen your candidacy:
- Experience with HPC technologies such as SchedMD Slurm, parallel computing, MPI programming, Spack, Singularity, and CUDA.
- Experience with MongoDB in a sharded architecture.
- Low latency networking experience (e.g., Infiniband).
- Open OnDemand, Jupyter Notebook and supporting technologies experience.
- Clustered filesystem expertise (e.g., GPFS).
- Expertise with at least one systems programming language (C, Python, Perl, Rust, etc…) and software version control.
- Experience compiling, installing, and running open-source software.
- Experience working at an academic institution.
We may hire at either a senior-level position or a mid-level position. For further information, or to apply with electronic application, resume, and cover letter, visit our website:
The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, veterans, individuals with disabilities and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.
