HPC Systems Engineer — Research Compute & Automation
Listed on 2026-10-19
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, IT Support, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity
Job Description
UW Information Technology has an outstanding opportunity for HPC Systems Engineer to join their team.
About This Opportunity
Reporting to Director, the HPC Systems Engineer is responsible for supporting the HPC efforts for the research computing group and related research computing technologies. This position also provids expertise and support to other endeavors when needed. This position requires a team-oriented professional, experienced in managing large IT systems for research using automated and software-defined approaches. This position regularly interfaces with other UWIT teams as well as research customers across campus.
Job Description
UW Information Technology has an outstanding opportunity for HPC Systems Engineer to join their team.
About This Opportunity
Reporting to Director, the HPC Systems Engineer is responsible for supporting the HPC efforts for the research computing group and related research computing technologies. This position also provids expertise and support to other endeavors when needed. This position requires a team-oriented professional, experienced in managing large IT systems for research using automated and software-defined approaches. This position regularly interfaces with other UWIT teams as well as research customers across campus.
This position requires participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
This is an essential position is required to work remotely when the University suspends operations.
Key Duties
25% Systems Engineering and Development:
Design, develop, adapt, integrate, manage, optimize, or deploy monitoring for new or existing systems, software, or automation to continually improve the performance, reliability, recoverability, manageability, and usability of research cyberinfrastructure.
20% Systems Administration:
Perform system management functions such as account administration, service administration, software installation and configuration, firmware updates, software updates, backing up and restoring data, improving system and service monitoring, or planning and execution of hardware replacements.
15% Operational Monitoring and Troubleshooting:
Monitor HPC and related systems health and performance, and troubleshoot and resolve issues that impact performance, health, or reliability.
20% Technical Support:
Monitor support ticket and alerting queue; triage, respond to, and resolve tickets and on-call pages as appropriate.
10% Systems Research, Evaluation and Architecting:
Research and evaluate new and future technologies. Plan and architect new systems and the evolution and lifecycle of existing systems and clusters. Suggest or advise on new technologies to the Director of Research Computing Operations and other members of the Research Computing Operations team.
5% Training, Mentoring and Documentation:
Effectively share experience and knowledge with other team members.
5% Other duties as assigned Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
To be considered for this opportunity your application must demonstrate you meet both the minimum qualifications and additional qualifications listed below. Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology, scientific, engineering, or related field or experience
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in Linux system administration experience or substantial experience working with Linux.
- Basic knowledge of networking hardware, software, protocols, and concepts. Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision, both independently and as part of a team.
- Demonstrated excellent written/oral communication…
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