Senior HPC Systems Specialist

Senior HPC Systems Specialist Position Information

Position Number: 001982

Vacancy Open to:
All Candidates

Working Title:

Senior HPC Systems Specialist

Position Designation: EHRA Non-Faculty

Employment Type:

Permanent
- Full-time

Months per Year: 12

Work Schedule:

8:00 am - 5:00 pm;
Monday
- Friday with occasional evening and weekend hours required, as necessary.

Hours per week: 40

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Division:
OneIT

Department:
Office of OneIT (Adm)

Work Location:

Kennedy

Primary Purpose of Department:
The Office of OneIT provides highly reliable information technology infrastructure, tools, and services to empower the University to achieve its academic, research, administrative, and service goals. The Research Computing group within OneIT provides researchers at the University with powerful High Performance Computing (HPC) services, in addition to educational HPC resources dedicated to teaching academic classes.

Primary Purpose of Position:
This Senior HPC Systems Specialist serves as a key team member reporting to the Director of University Research Computing. This position performs critical systems management and other operational duties, with responsibilities and objectives delegated by the Director. This position contributes to shaping the strategic direction of University Research Computing. At times, this position may provide leadership or supervision of the technical work of other staff members.

Summary of

Position Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for supporting the ongoing operation of the Research Computing facilities, including systems management and maintenance, developing and deploying upgraded capability, and interacting with and supporting users. The position is also responsible for supporting technical design and strategy development. The position also includes responsibility for directing the technical work of other members of staff.

Minimum Education /

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of progressively responsible experience designing, provisioning, administering, and supporting production HPC systems and clusters; or
• An equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.

Preferred Education, Knowledge,

Skills and Experience:

• Experience installing, maintaining, and optimizing HPC scientific applications, libraries, and tool chains (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, compilers, numerical libraries).
• Proficiency with HPC software management tools such as Easy Build and Spack, and environment module systems such as Lmod.
• Experience supporting researchers in higher education or research environments by troubleshooting job failures, optimizing workflows, debugging application issues, and providing technical guidance.
• Experience with HPC monitoring, logging, and accounting tools, including Grafana, Prometheus, Slurm accounting, Elastic Stack, or similar monitoring platforms.
• Experience supporting GPU computing environments, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, GPU scheduling, monitoring, and performance optimization; familiarity with AMD ROCm is desirable.
• Experience with container technologies in HPC environments, including Apptainer/Singularity, and supporting reproducible containerized research workflows.

Preferred Certifications/Licenses:

• RHCSA
• RHCE

Posting Open Date: 08/19/2026

Open Until Filled:
Yes

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