General Summary/Purpose:

We are seeking a self-motivated and creative HPC system administrator with strong application and user support skills to join a small but highly-skilled and creative research computing team that develops and operates a dynamic and rapidly growing High Performance Computing (HPC) environment for Public Health and Biomedical research. The facility has doubled its storage capacity every 12-18 months for over 10 years and currently has over 10PB of custom-built Lustre and ZFS storage.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities:

• Administer, troubleshoot, implement and extend an existing High Performance Computing (HPC) system in a top flight academic research institution.
• Participate in architecture development, strategic decision-making, user training and outreach.
• Deploy x86-64 and GPU nodes.
• Participate in development, implementation and management of custom-designed multi-petabyte storage and backup systems based on ZFS and Lustre.
• Install and administer application and development environments.
• Share rotations in after-hours help-desk support with other members of the team.
• Prepare web-based documentation. Maintain security and authentication systems within a HIPAA compliant system.

Minimum Qualifications (mandatory):

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5 years related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. or Ph.D. degree in STEM field
• Seven years of experience managing Linux servers and applications or five years of experience managing Linux HPC clusters.

Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Experience with R, SAS, Stata, Matlab, image manipulation software, genomic software
• Experience administering SGE, Hadoop, Spark, Lua, Lmod. Git, Anaconda
• Experience with ZFS, Lustre, EXT3/4 and NFS file system administration
• Familiarity with security and authentication technologies and SSH, VPN, LDAP, Shibboleth, SAML SELinux, openSSL etc.
• Database administration MySQL, Postgresql, MariaDB
• Experience with Unix tools such as awk, grep, sed, vi, emacs
• Familiarity with lower level Linux programs and fundamentals such as strace, the /proc filesystem in a RHEL or Centos environment, though other flavors of Linux are helpful.

Technical Qualifications or Specialized Certifications:

• Hands-on Linux system administration in an HPC or large enterprise environment
• Solid understanding of IP network fundamentals
• Solid understanding of large storage array fundamentals
• Solid understanding of POSIX and networked file system concepts and administration (e.g. NSF)
• Solid scripting language skills with Perl, Python and Bash
• Excellent documentation and writing skills
• Ability to share off-hours user and system support responsibility
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle and has a valid U.S. driver’s license

Any specific physical requirements for the job:

• Ability to lift equipment, e.g. a 1U server (40lbs)

Classified Title: Systems Engineer 
Working Title: Systems/Applications Engineer  ​​​​​
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE 
Starting Salary Range: Commensurate with Experience
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Full Time 
Exempt Status: Exempt  
Location: 05-MD:School of Public Health 
Department name: 10001070-Biostatistics 
Personnel area: School of Public Health

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.

The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work.  Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

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