Sr Research Infrastructure Engineer

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Location

Augusta University
- Our Health Sciences Campus: 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912

Our Summerville Campus: 2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30904

College/Department Information

The Division of Information Technology's mission at Augusta University is to anticipate and respond effectively to a changing world with agile, innovative, robust and secure services that educate and inspire students, empower clinicians, educators, researchers and administrators, advance learning, discovery and care.

Job Summary

Provide advanced technical expertise for the design, implementation, maintenance, and operational support of research infrastructure services that support Augusta University
¿ s research enterprise, including research computing, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence initiatives. This position is responsible for building, operating, and optimizing secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure platforms, including compute, storage, networking, data center services, GPU and accelerator-based resources, and AI-enabled environments, that support data-intensive, computationally intensive, and regulated research workloads. The Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer leads infrastructure planning, capacity management, performance optimization, and operational readiness to ensure reliable, sustainable, and secure access to institutional research computing resources across the university.

This role also enables AI-driven research and innovation through support for model development, training, inference, data pipelines, and the secure integration of emerging AI technologies into the broader research environment.

Responsibilities

The duties include, but are not limited to:

INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN AND OPERATIONS:
Design, implement, maintain, and optimize infrastructure that supports research computing, HPC, AI workloads, storage, backup, and related enterprise services.

TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION AND STANDARDS:
Maintain technical documentation, standards, configuration records, architecture documentation, and operational procedures.

INFRASTRUCTURE COLLABORATION AND SOLUTIONS:
Collaborate with researchers, faculty, vendors, and IT staff to assess infrastructure needs and deliver technical solutions aligned with research priorities, including AI-driven and data-intensive initiatives.

SYSTEMS SECURITY AND INTEGRATION:
Support identity, access, security, networking, system integration, and data movement requirements for research computing, HPC, and AI-enabled environments.

INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND UPGRADES:
Plan and implement infrastructure upgrades, patching, capacity improvements, automation, and lifecycle management activities for research computing, HPC, and AI platforms.

INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING AND SUPPORT:
Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure, system, storage, network, GPU, and performance issues to maintain secure, reliable, and highly available operations.

OTHER:
Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree from an…