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POSITION SUMMARY: 

Under the direction of the Director of Research Computing or designee, the HPC System Administration Engineer I, supports UMass’ High Performance Computing cluster, connected storage and networking operations.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provide support to HPC end users, under the direction of the Director of Research Computing or designee
• Maintain HPC cluster’s hardware and software related to: computing, storage, and networking.
• Acknowledge and resolve user service requests utilizing the service request management system.
• Apply standard principles, concepts and techniques toward the identification and resolution of user problems
• Interact with other Systems Administration staff and Manager for assistance and direction, occasionally involved in routine cross organization issues
• Escalate more difficult user issues as appropriate.
• Perform other duties as required.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or equivalent experience.
• 1-2 years work experience in a Linux System Administration role or similar
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to travel to off-site locations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Capable of contributing within a team, exhibiting a high level of initiative, and having an eagerness to learn and implement new technologies.
• Strong understanding of and experience working with Linux operating systems and basic IP networking.
• Experience with open-source projects and compiling software from source
• Ability to automate tasks using scripting languages such as bash, perl, python, etc.
• Sufficient organizational skills to record procedures accurately and ensure reproducibility.
• Experience with Academic research and researchers, High Performance Compute Clusters and Scheduling Software
• Familiarity with parallel computing tools such as MPI implementations.
• Experience with open-source and/or commercial scientific software such as MATLAB and R.