Senior HPC Systems Administrator, SAS Computing

Job Description Summary

The Linux Infrastructure Services (LIS) group at the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) is seeking a passionate and skilled Senior HPC Systems Administrator. Join our team and collaborate with world-renowned researchers tackling questions about the human brain, the upper atmosphere, ocean biogeochemistry, social program impacts, and more. Under the guidance of the HPC team leadership, you will ensure the smooth operation of our HPC research services using technologies like GPU's, CPU's, Slurm, conda, infiniband, and many other components of a modern, shared HPC environment. This position is hybrid-eligible.

Job Responsibilities/Duties:

• Deploy and manage Linux systems
• Develop shell and python scripts
• Configure, manage, and optimize job scheduling software (SLURM)
• Install and configure free and licensed software
• Monitor systems and services
• Perform routine systems maintenance
• Manage data and configuration backups
• Coordinate hardware repairs
• Oversee ordering and installation of hardware
• Recommend and track software and hardware changes
• Automate systems configuration tasks and deployments
• Provide technical consulting and end-user Linux support
• Support web services
• Assist first-tier support staff with end-users issues on our systems
• Maintain expert-level knowledge of HPC technologies
• Propose and implement improvements to our HPC services
• Provide support for SAS researchers using Penn's PARCC central HPC cluster and partner with the PARCC team to meet the needs of SAS faculty

This position also participates in the linux systems administration on-call rotations, which includes on-prem and cloud (AWS) services.