Job Details

Research Computing Storage Administrator

Requisition Number: 63014
Location: Boulder Colorado
Employment Type: University Staff
Schedule: Full Time
Posting Close Date: 06-Apr-2025
Date Posted:

Job Summary

The Research Computing team at CU Boulder encourages applications for a Storage Administrator! This position performs independently, with main responsibility for the PetaLibrary research data storage service, and coordinates with other HPC systems and network administrators to provide access to storage resources. The position carries secondary responsibility for HPC scratch storage and other storage resources. The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Who We Are

Vision:

• OIT will be valued by campus as a strategic, inclusive and innovative partner in advancing learning and discovery in order to enable CU Boulder to be a best-in-class public university.

Mission:

• OIT enables campus priorities by providing high-value IT services and solutions.

Values:

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

Strategy:

• 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 efficiency.

Based on our departmental goals and our commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence, OIT particularly welcomes applications from candidates whose knowledge, skills, and abilities, and desire to chip in to an inclusive campus environment, will help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

Systems Administration

• Diagnosing, solving, and implementing solutions for the RC infrastructure, including cluster, storage, and core systems. May include hardware repairs, operating system configuration, system software updates, and procedure automation. Assist with network hardware and network service maintenance and configuration. Respond to end-user queries.
• Test and tune storage and data-transfer systems to increase performance and reliability. Identify and address performance bottlenecks. Build configuration management to standardize storage systems. As appropriate, implement changes to storage infrastructure to meet new demands and ensure supportability and data reliability.

Systems Monitoring

• Monitor storage infrastructure utilization and system metrics to anticipate and address failures within redundancy limits; develop automation for the monitoring and alerting process. Build or enhance observability of the storage infrastructure including alerting and trending.
• As appropriate coordinate ordering, installation and build of new storage infrastructure to ensure the team can continuously meet growing customer demand.

Documentation

• Maintaining and/or documenting in support of the RC infrastructure.

Evaluate Potential Technologies

• This position will investigate new technologies that support tactical and strategic objectives. This position will also build, test, and evaluate new technologies to recommend their applicability to key organizational and program objectives.
• Changes to infrastructure, advances in technology, and changes in regulatory expectations may identify performance constraints or opportunities to particular system infrastructure objectives. This position will evaluate potential products or techniques to provide insight into new program projects and services before they are necessary that will help the organization remain relevant and to evaluate opportunities in a timely manner.

Professional Development

• This role will maintain professional expertise in the field by reviewing trade publications lists, studying the latest vendor trends, reviewing pertinent mailing lists and attending seminars, training sessions and conferences. This position will identify and elect relevant training opportunities that would be most beneficial to the organization.

What You Should Know

• This position is in a hybrid work environment, primarily working in the office on Tuesdays.
• The position carries with it a general expectation to respond to critical issues and incidents that arise outside of normal business hours within a reasonable time frame, as defined by the position's supervisor. This expectation is consistent with commitments RC has made with customers that many of its services will have "best effort" coverage outside of regular business hours.

What We Can Offer

• The annual hiring range for this position is $97,700-$109,925.

Benefits

The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.

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What We Require

• Bachelor's Degree in science, engineering, or other related field. A combination of education and relevant experience as described below may be substituted for the degree on a year for year basis.
• Detailed knowledge of and 4 years professional experience in a combination of the following:
• Management and operation of ZFS in any Unix environment (e.g., Solaris, BSD, or Linux).
• Management and operation of networked storage systems in a Linux or other Unix environment (Red Hat Enterprise Linux preferred).
• Management and operation of aggregate storage systems, including one or more of RAID and clustered object storage.
• At least 1 year of experience working in a High Performance Computing and/or Research Computing organization.
  

What You Will Need

• Demonstrable ability to work in a many-user networked Linux or Unix environment, including a mixture of unprivileged and privileged access.
• Exceptional ability to work optimally both within a team and also independently, as circumstances warrant.
• Demonstrated ability to follow through with assignments and commitments in a timely and professional manner.
• Demonstrated ability to work from a set of requirements to assemble an independently-proposed solution.

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:

1. A current resume.
2. A cover letter that specifically tells us how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.
We may request references at a later time.
Please apply by April 6, 2025, for consideration.
Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, please apply through CU Boulder Jobs.
In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.


To apply, visit https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Research-Computing-Storage-Administrator/63014







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