Research Computing Storage Administrator

Job Summary

The Office of Information Technology at CU Boulder
encourages applications for a Research Computing Storage Administrator! This role supports the Peta Library research data storage service and the storage components of CURC’s HPC and condo compute clusters. That currently means Alpine and Blanca,including the high-performance parallel scratch file system shared across those systems (/scratch/alpine, backed by GPFS). This position works in collaboration with other administrators on the Research Computing team and receives technical guidance from senior storage staff.

The position contributes to the reliability, performance, and recoverability of research data at petabyte scale. As federal requirements applicable to research data continue to develop, this position supports storage-side compliance activity, including evidence collection, access review, and configuration records.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds toapply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

• The Office of Information Technology will be valued by campusas a strategic, inclusive and innovative partner in advancing learning and discovery in order to enable CU Boulder to be apremier public university.

• The Office of Information Technology enables campus priorities by providing high-value IT services and solutions.

• Trust, as a foundation for how we engage with one another andwith campus partners, along with
• Avid curiosity in how to better support the campus and our stakeholder's while
• Fostering empowerment and authentic engagement amongst ourselves and
• Celebrating inclusivity that promotes a sense of belonging while acknowledging that each person is unique and valued.

OIT will advance learning and discovery by delivering high-value reliable IT services and solutions that:

• Provide a fluid and adaptable academic and student experience
• Enable research competitiveness and
• Deliver core infrastructure and enterprise IT services for business effectiveness.

• Monitor storage infrastructure utilization and system metricsto anticipate and address failures within redundancy limits. Buildand maintain the automation behind that monitoring and alerting,including metrics collection, thresholds, and escalation paths.
• Participate in the implementation of storage expansion,upgrades, and other front-end and back-end improvements across
  
  PetaLibrary, the parallel scratch file system, and cluster-attached storage. Works from designs and requirements set with seniorstaff.
• Test and tune storage and data-transfer systems to increase performance and reliability, with support from senior staff onfabric-level and parallel file system tuning.
• Maintain and/or document in support of the research computing infrastructure, particularly with regard to storage and data transfer systems, including both internal and user-facing documentation.
• Administer storage accounts and allocations, including provisioning, quota management, and external account coordination.
• Work on disaster recovery and archive testing, and support storage-side compliance activity including evidence collection,access review, and configuration records for federal requirements applicable to research data.

• This position is in a hybrid work situation with Tuesdays onsite and trips to campus as needed to work on hardware in datacenters or to attend required meetings.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• The position carries a general expectation to respond to critical issues and incidents arising outside normal business hours within a reasonable time frame, as defined by the position’ssupervisor. This expectation supports commitments Research Computing has made that many of its services will have best-effort coverage outside regular business hours. Independent participation in that rotation is expected within approximately six to twelvemonths rather than at…