System Administrator, Center for Applied AI Center in Protein Dynamics

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As a systems administrator, you will be imbedded in the Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology (CSB) Research Computing Core Facility and work with a collaborative team to develop and sustain state of the art computing and storage solutions in support of innovative research. Our facility supports a shared infrastructure that serves a diverse set of research centers with an efficient and collaborative approach to computing. 

Duties and Responsibilities

Co-manage a Linux workstation and server cluster that is distributed among several research labs
Installation and administration of both centralized and local storage resources that provide production storage, backup, and archive capabilities.
Manage ~60-node HPC cluster, scratch storage, and batch scheduler software
Implement network security policies in collaboration with University IT

Skills
The successful candidate will have a solid foundation in many or most of the following skills, making them well prepared to receive formal or self-guided on-the-job training for the others.
- Advanced knowledge of Linux Operating System (Preferably RHEL9/Rocky9) installation, configuration, troubleshooting.
- Advanced knowledge of high-performance storage hardware and software (SAS, multipath, ZFS, alerting tools)
- Advanced knowledge of network file protocols (NFS, CIFS, snapshot replication, local and cloud migration tools)
- Solid foundation with TCP/IP networking, including configuration, troubleshooting, performance testing/optimization, and security techniques.
- Expertise with software firewall tools, including troubleshooting/rule discovery to enable machine-specific services (firewalld)
- Expertise with Ansible or related tools for automated installation and configuration management of Linux in a clustered environment
- Experience with hardware inventory management tools
- Expertise with software containers (Docker or K8s) in a production environment
- Proficiency with scripting in Python and at least one UNIX shell; Experience with at least one compiled language (preferably C/C++)
- Experience managing LDAP (client/server) and Active Directory (client) authentication services with sssd in the Linux environment
- Experience with configuration and deployment of web services
- Experience with email server installation/configuration and related security measures (DKIM, DMARC, SRFS, Spamassassin, etc)
- Experience with configuration and deployment of Postgres and MySQL database software
- Expertise with setup and maintenance of virtual machines on Linux host operating systems (KVM, VirtualBox)
- 3D graphics hardware/drivers/applications in a UNIX/Linux environment
- Experience with batch queuing software (preferably SLURM) in an HPC environment

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related field.
Minimum three years of experience with system administration in a predominantly UNIX/Linux environment with ten years preferred.
Minimum three years' experience (Five years' experience preferred) deploying and managing advanced storage systems
Minimum three years' experience (Five years' experience preferred) programming/scripting

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