ACS Storage Manager

Job title: ACS Storage Manager

Company: University of Texas at Austin

Job description: Job Posting Title: ACS Storage Manager—-Hiring Department: Texas Advanced Computing Center—-Position Open To: All Applicants—-Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40—-FLSA Status: Exempt—-Earliest Start Date: Immediately—-Position Duration: Expected to Continue—-Location: PICKLE RESEARCH CAMPUS—-Job Details:General NotesThe 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.fosters a culture of innovation, passion, and fun by encouraging staff members to actively collaborate to investigate the latest technologies, team up for charities, and celebrate successes together. TACC promotes a healthy workplace by helping employees achieve balance between their personal and professional lives to increase employee engagement, job satisfaction, and overall well-being.Candidates will need to upload a resume, letter of interest, and the names of three references to apply for this position.UT Austin offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

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

Please visit our website to learn more about the total offered.If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.PurposeThe Manager for the new storage-focused group in the Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) area at TACC will provide technical expertise and leadership to an experienced team deploying, administering and operating various storage platforms that support the various production systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for supervising staff in this new storage group as well as providing technical and organizational expertise. The ideal candidate will be an excellent problem solver, have strong communication skills, help plan future system designs and work well in a team environment.ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for talented and inspired individuals who are passionate about the mission of TACC. The successful candidate will:

• Contribute technically to the group providing storage systems administration for HPC systems, data collections, and tape archive
• Create and maintain documentation aligned with TACC’s workflow tracking methodology
• Interface well with other groups/collaborate with leaders of other areas at TACC
• Gain general knowledge of all TACC production systems, with focus on storage
• Maintain support contracts/approve purchases/interface with vendors for storage platform design and operation
• Manage group responsibilities; lead and mentor a group of junior and senior system administrators

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate degree in computer science or other science/engineering field
• 10+ years demonstrated experience with large scale storage platforms for HPC Linux-based clustered systems
• 2+ years of experience as a technical lead, project manager, or supervisor
• Extensive experience running multi-petabyte parallel storage filesystems such as Lustre/GPFS/BeeGFS and knowledge of the various large-scale storage technologies such as flash and tape archives
• Experience in Linux systems administration including system software package management, software/kernel patching/compilation, hardware diagnostics, backups, and failure-recovery procedures
• Proficient with Bash scripting to automate system tasks, and programming scripting languages such as Perl, Python
• Demonstrates excellent verbal/written communications skills
• Must be diplomatic, organized and work will different customers

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge or experience with Lustre and/or GPFS, high-speed networks such as InfiniBand or OmniPath, and storage controllers and platforms from companies like IBM, DDN, HPE/Cray, and VAST
• Experience configuring operating and maintaining HPC Linux clustered environments, configuration management and PXE based bare metal provisioning
• High level of experience in RedHat-based operating systems and network administration
• Familiarity with HPC resource managers and schedulers such as Slurm
• Background in security such as HIPAA and handling of protected data
• Hands-on experience with storage hardware and physical deployment, including cabling, power distribution and cooling
• Experience working in an academic research environment in collaborative interdisciplinary projects with computational scientists and engineers

Salary RangeOPENWorking Conditions

• Typical Office Environment
• Repetitive use of a keyboard

Required Materials

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

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.—-Employment Eligibility: 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.—-Retirement Plan Eligibility: 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. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) instead of TRS, subject to the position being 40 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.—-Background Checks:A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.—-Equal Opportunity Employer:The University of Texas at Austin, as an , 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, educational programs and activities, and admissions.—-Pay Transparency:The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.—-Employment Eligibility Verification:If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.—-E-Verify:The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:
[PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF]—-Compliance:Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in .The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.

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Location: USA

Job date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:35:12 GMT