(Hybrid) Systems Administrator - West Virginia University Department of Physics and Astronomy

The Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for a (Hybrid) Systems Administrator. 

About the Opportunity

The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Physics Frontiers Center Systems Administrator will be primarily responsible for: developing and maintaining web-accessible data storage of NANOGrav and related pulsar search radio telescope observations; maintaining and innovating the NANOGrav cyber-infrastructure (IE: Jupyter Notebook Server, Google Workspace, Data Transfer and Processing Pipelines, Containerization of Science Software, Drupal Website, Self-Hosted Wiki and GitLab instances, etc); maintaining shared Linux-based High Performance Compute resources (IE: software installation, security patches, hardware replacement, etc); and training undergraduate and graduate students across multiple institutions in the use of various software and development best practices.

What You'll Do

• Maintain and develop software systems to adapt to the changing scientific needs of the collaboration.
• Maintain enterprise-grade, rack-mounted computational hardware computational hardware for data processing and storage.
• Respond to user requests and issues on the managed systems and with our software stack.
• Monitor, identify, and correct software and hardware defects.
• Problem-solve and think laterally as part of a team, or individually, to meet the needs of the project.
• Manage user accounts on various computational platforms.
• Ensure that all cyber-infrastructure adheres to university cyber-security protocols.
• Provide quality assessment support for regulatory, contract, policy and/or program activities and matters.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer related field required. 
• A minimum of four (4) years of professional computing experience.
• Any equivalent combination of related education and/or experience will be considered.
• All qualifications must be met by the time of employment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Maintaining and administering Linux-based servers. 
• A knowledge of software containers, including Docker. 
• A working knowledge of the Python programming language. 
• A working knowledge of automation of software operations. 
• Familiarity with NAS Software and enterprise-grade JBoDs (IE: LustreFS, ZFS, etc). 
• Advanced skill in the design/development of new software and git-powered version control.
• Skilled at analyzing needs and product requirements to fulfill the cyber-infrastructure requirements of the collaboration.
• Skilled in determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. 
• Skilled at generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.