Senior Operating System Analyst​/Administrator - Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

An Emory College Research Support (ECRS) Senior Operating System Analyst/Administrator supports and administers Linux-based high-performance computing (HPC) systems with a primary focus on educational and instructional computing. Working with faculty, instructors, students, and other technical staff, this position helps provide reliable, accessible, and effective computing environments for courses that use Linux, HPC, GPU, and other computational resources.

The position is responsible for the administration, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of Linux servers, HPC clusters, and related infrastructure. A significant part of the role involves administering technologies that provide students and instructors access to computational resources, including Open OnDemand and Slurm-based computing environments.

This is a role intended for an administrator who can independently manage Linux systems and troubleshoot moderately complex infrastructure problems. The administrator is expected to possess a working knowledge of HPC concepts while continuing to develop expertise in cluster computing, storage, networking, automation, GPU computing, and other advanced technologies.

The position may also support research computing infrastructure and collaborate with researchers whose computational requirements overlap with the technologies and services provided for educational computing.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plans and implements one or more muli-platform operating systems, utilities, and related software to meet organizational needs.
• May be responsible for applications on dedicated servers.
• Ensures the availability, integrity and reliability of assigned systems.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Five years of operating systems analysis/administration experience OR a bachelor's degree and three years of operating systems analysis/administration experience.

ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:

• Independently administer Linux systems used for instructional and educational computing.
• Administer and maintain HPC clusters and other Linux-based computing environments used by students and faculty.
• Administer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Open OnDemand environments providing web-based access to computational resources.
• Administer and troubleshoot Slurm workload-management environments, including nodes, partitions, resource allocation, job scheduling, and common user issues.
• Collaborate with faculty and instructors to prepare computing environments for courses, including determining resource requirements, configuring software, provisioning access, and testing environments before instructional use.
• Provide advanced technical assistance to faculty, instructors, teaching assistants, and students using Linux and HPC resources.
• Manage Linux user accounts, groups, permissions, SSH access, authentication, and integration with centralized identity-management systems.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot Linux operating systems and applications.
• Install, configure, and maintain software required for instructional and computational workloads.
• Support GPU-enabled computing environments and assist users with accessing GPU resources through the workload scheduler.
• Perform operating system patching, security updates, vulnerability remediation, and other routine security administration.
• Monitor system availability, utilization, capacity, and performance and proactively identify potential problems.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware, operating system, storage, networking, authentication, scheduling, and application problems.
• Develop and maintain system administration documentation, operational procedures, configuration standards, and user-facing documentation.
• Use scripting and automation to improve system administration, deployment,configuration, and maintenance processes.
• Participate in infrastructure upgrades, migrations, hardware deployments, and other computing projects.
• Assist with evaluating new technologies and recommend improvements to instructional computing environments.
• Provide technical guidance and assistance to junior administrators and student employees when appropriate.
• Participate in the support of research computing systems when needed and apply experience gained across…