BACKGROUND:
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is seeking a dynamic leader with demonstrated technical excellence and an international reputation in high performance networking to lead and direct the newly established Scientific Networking Division. This position is critical in defining the role of networking in the growing area of data driven science. The core of this division is made up of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet - http://www.es.net), the international high-performance networking facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science managed by Berkeley Lab. ESnet provides innovative, high-performance network services linking scientists at national laboratories, universities and other research institutions, enabling them to collaborate on some of the world's most important scientific challenges including energy, climate science, and the origins of the universe. ESnet offers resources and services for the scientific community, and will play a key role as scientific exploration continues to be more data intensive.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Scientific Networking Division Director:

• Serves as an intellectual leader of the Scientific Networking Division at Berkeley Lab and provide substantial contributions to the formulation and direction of Laboratory programs and projects that enhance Berkeley Lab's preeminence as a national laboratory
• Provides vision and leadership to establish, maintain, and extend ESnet's leading-edge network capabilities
• Provides planning, organization, monitoring, and control functions for a group of over 40 staff members with an annual budget of approximately $30M
• Participates as a senior member of the Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area, and as a division director in the creation and implementation of the LBNL vision for computational science at the lab
• Collaborates with other scientific research projects at Berkeley Lab in the identification and resolution of cross-cutting problems that have Lab-wide impact
• Develops, directs, and evaluates technological and architectural strategies to introduce new networking capabilities that improve usability for the division's user community
• Establishes and communicates division policy, mission, goals, and accomplishments; develop initiatives and budgets and obtain funding (specific areas of current interest are technology scaling to the Tb/s level, and new technologies for increasing the energy efficiency of high performance networking platforms)
• Works directly with the user community and user advisory groups to ensure that the division's services, resources, and policies are responsive to their needs
• Represents the division internally and to external organizations and funding agencies; maintains a work environment that embraces diversity and fosters creativity and innovation; ensures that DOE and Laboratory rules and policies are observed

REQUIREMENTS:
Key Qualifications:

• Recognized national and international reputation as an authority on high performance networking and its role in scientific applications
• Demonstrated expertise in the architecture and implementation of a scientific high-performance network and/or demonstrated experience in operations and support of a continuous production high-performance networking facility
• Significant experience and demonstrated competence in the management of large-scale scientific projects and collaborative science
• Experience employing advanced network technology to serve hundreds to thousands of remote scientific users
• Demonstrated leadership ability applicable to running a large, diverse, and team-oriented organization
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to interact at the highest level of management, both internally and externally
• Ph.D. or equivalent experience in an area of computational science or computer science, preferably in the area of advanced networking, and a record of significant impact in the research community

LOCALE:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is located in the San Francisco Bay Area on a 200-acre site in the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus and is managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy. A leader in science and engineering research for 75 years, Berkeley Lab is the oldest of the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories.

COMPENSATION:
In addition to the intellectual and cultural advantages of being a member of the LBNL community, we offer employees in career and term appointments excellent terms and conditions of employment, outstanding health and welfare benefits, and programs for a secure retirement that are considered to be among the finest. More information about benefits can be found at: http://www.lbl.gov/HR/html/Employment/total-rewards.html

NOTE:
Effective January 1, 2011, all National Laboratory employees will be subject to a two year pay freeze. This position falls under this provision for Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's fiscal years: 2012-2013 (October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2013).

HOW TO APPLY:
For a detailed job description and instructions regarding how to apply, please visit: http://bit.ly/lbl74060Bioinformatics

Berkeley Lab is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to the development of a diverse workforce.