BACKGROUND

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for HPC systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers.
• Ability to work independently and demonstrate excellent project management and communication skills with strong commitment to customer service.
• Work directly with developers and bioinformaticians as a member of their team in designing, prototyping/testing, tuning for parallelization, problem analysis, and documenting HPC pipelines.
• Develop relationship with and work closely with developers and bioinformaticians for enabling the HPC-informatics ecosystem, including applications, algorithms and tools.
• Work within the IT team to support colleagues in all aspects of HPC computing hardware, techniques and software for biomedical research.
• Linux, UNIX administration and Windows administration or other responsibilities as appropriate.
• Design, build and maintain unix, linux infrastructure supporting scientific data system and computation environment.
• Architect and implement software development environment.
• System engineering for complex parallel systems and software.
• Assist users to install, configure and/or script informatics tools and applications, understanding and guiding work and data flows for their analysis.
• Perform standard configuration, management, and maintenance tasks for related file systems, input/output systems, networking, clustering, storage, and applications.
• Learn new programming languages, libraries, techniques, API documentation as needed.
• Perform and test system configuration backups and restores to ensure system recovery from error or outage.
• Understand the research process and be comfortable working in a dynamic environment, with flexibility to meet evolving requirements with minimal supervision.
• Review and deploy HPC system releases and vendor-supplied patches according to best practices.
• Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems on all HPC systems.
• Monitor, test, and tune system performance; preserve and provide system log files as needed.
• Recommend and execute modifications to HPC systems in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance.
• Conduct research on HPC-related hardware and software in support of procurement and system development efforts.
• Remain informed on laws, trends, and issues, including current and emerging technologies and best practices.
• Ensure HPC-based systems comply with policies, standards, licensing agreements, configuration guidelines, and best-practices for maintaining regulatory compliance.
• Ensure secure user access and role validation processes.
• Create required reports in response to business user needs.
• Develop, document, and maintain HPC system documentation for educating end users and IT staff.

REQUIREMENTS

• BS/MS in of Computer Science, Computational Science, or Bioinformatics required.
• Expert knowledge of linux/unix systems, Windows (HPC) Server also desirable.
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining linux/unix systems.
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience building and maintaining computational clusters, HPC and/or grid computing environments.
• 3+ years' experience supporting informatics systems in biological, medical, or basic science research environments strongly preferred.
• Experience of development and management of informatics applications and web services including database development on unix/linux systems preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with cloud technologies and platforms such as Amazon Web Services and S3.
• Familiarity with Oracle Database Administration and appliances is a plus.

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