The CoreHPC team at UCSF is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer to play a key role in the development, maintenance, and day-to-day operations of the Institute’s HPC clusters.
The HPC Systems Engineer will:
Evaluates new technologies, including performing moderate to complex cost/benefit analyses.
This position may lead to cross-functional technical working groups and projects in support of onboarding research customers, or making systems improvements.
Department Overview
Academic Research Systems (ARS) serves the needs of the UCSF research community by providing an integrated repository of HIPAA-compliant clinical and life sciences data and a centralized, secure, professionally managed infrastructure for the storage and management of research data. ARS empowers medical scientific investigations by offering secure computing environments, data capture, management and analysis tools, and support services which meet researchers’ needs.
The Core HPC team of the Academic Research Service (ARS) focuses on large-scale, high-performance computational and storage services for UCSF researchers so they can address complex computational, AI, and data science problems.
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Key Responsibilities
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Applies advanced systems / infrastructure concepts to define, design, implement, and operate highly complex, research cyberinfrastructure systems, services and technology solutions. Proposes and implements highly complex system or device enhancements such as software, hardware and network configuration, updates and installations for projects or services of broad scope. Sets standards for monitoring and maintaining the health and integrity of CI systems including upgrading and patching.15
Independently manages systems and services for a large facility, campuswide, medical center or Office of the President and / or institution-wide scope and makes recommendations for purchases or upgrades. Performs complex and advanced analysis to acquire, install, modify and support operating systems, databases, utilities and web-related tools. Selects methods and techniques to obtain solutions. Interacts with senior management. May perform complex network integration tasks and interoperability assessments for interconnected servers or components of clusters for communication. Support and collaborate with researchers and other key IT (e.g. network and security) and Data Center partners in a timely manner15
Specifies, writes and executes highly complex software and scripts to support systems management, log analysis, monitoring, deployment, configuration management, and other system administration duties for multiple, highly integrated systems.30
Provides consultation, training, support, and guidance to researchers enabling them to utilize HPC resources effectively.10
Maintains complex security systems. Interprets and adopts campus, medical center or Office of the President, system and regulation-based security policies to control access to networked resources. Provides recommendations and requirements on network access controls.5
Collaborates and may provide leadership with other Systems Engineers within the CI ecosystem/higher-education community. Regularly contribute best practices documentation, present at conferences, or publish in peer reviewed journals.10
Define and track performance metrics to ensure efficient current and future use of cyber infrastructure resources.100%
(To update total %, enter the amount of time in whole numbers (without the % symbol - e.g., 15, 20) then highlight the total sum (e.g., 1%) at the bottom of the column and press F9. The total sum should add up to 100%.)REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Ability to write technical documentation in a clear and concise manner. Ability to develop runbooks defining complex technical processes in a clear and concise manner
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
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