Linux Cluster Hardware Administrator

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.

Linux Cluster Hardware Administrator

Texas Advanced Computing Center

All Applicants

40

Non-Exempt from FLSA

Immediately

Expected to Continue

PICKLE RESEARCH CAMPUS

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the leading supercomputing centers in the world, supporting advances in computational research by thousands of researchers and students. TACC staff help researchers and educators use advanced computing, visualization, and storage technologies effectively, and conduct research and development to make these technologies more powerful, more reliable, and easier to use.

TACC staff also educate and train the next generation of researchers, empowering them to make discoveries that advance knowledge and change the world.

The Large Scale Systems group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center is seeking a hardware-focused Systems Administrator with extensive deployment experience of Omni Path 400

Gbp/s and XDR Infiniband fabrics, in a large scale academic high performance computing environment. Demonstrable experience with hardware upgrades from Omni Path 100

Gbp/s to Omni Path 400

Gbp/s is required. This position will require interaction between various vendors and on campus teams in a high performance computing environment, spanning two physical locations that include Petascale HPC /storage systems, and other high-speed networking infrastructure.

UT Austin offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• 100% employer-paid basic medical coverage
• Retirement contributions
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Paid holidays

• Standard datacenter server components including all air-cooled components
• Direct-Liquid-Cooling (DLC) infrastructure components including cold-plates and coolant distribution units (CDU) s
• Coolant-Oil-Immersion-Cooling (COIC) subsystem components including CDUs
• Petabyte-scale storage hardware components
• Maintain up to date catalog of all work performed

• Deployment and management of high-speed networking fabrics
• Optimizing rack positioning and internal layout to ensure power/thermal efficiency

• 5+ years of hands' on experience with trouble-shouting and repair of telecommunications equipment and computer hardware
• Experience with Omni Path 400
  
  Gbp/s in an HPC environment
• Experience with XDR Infiniband in an HPC environment
• Experience with Linux systems administration tools
• Experience with server hardware and physical repairs of high-density HPC systems
• Experience with physical deployments including cabling, power distribution, and familiarity of advanced datacenter cooling technologies (DLC and immersion cooling)
• Ability and desire to learn new concepts and software tools
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

• Experience in physical installation of large-scale clusters
• Experience with clusters that have multiple interconnect fabrics: multiple Infiniband technologies/Omni Path 100
  
  Gbp/s & Omni Path 400
  
  Gbp/s
• Working knowledge of systems provisioning techniques and tools
• Basic knowledge with one or more scripting languages, (Python, Perl, Bash)
• Working knowledge of monitoring software such as Nagios or Zabbix

$65,000+ depending on qualifications

• Typical Office Environment
• Typical data center environment: loud noise, low light conditions, cold air, etc.

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment,…