Systems Architect

at  Colorado State University

DESCRIPTION OF WORK UNIT

Colorado State University (CSU) is a Carnegie Research I institution located in Fort Collins, Colorado, 60 miles north of Denver and situated at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Enhanced by relationships with CSU, Fort Collins has become a thriving center for high-tech and in 2018 was rated one of Milken’s top five best performing cities.
The computer science department has over 900 undergraduate majors and 150 graduate students in our masters and Ph.D. programs. The department has 21 tenure-track faculty with strong research programs in artificial intelligence, big data, bioinformatics, computer vision, networks, parallel and distributed computing, algorithms, security, and software engineering. More information is at https://compsci.colostate.edu.
The CSU computer science department systems support group is a collaborative, energetic, and hard-working team, with a reputation for providing strong systems and user support. The group will be composed of three full-time Systems Administrators and one half-time graduate student systems assistant.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position designs, builds, and develops computing systems, distributed computing systems, clusters, services, and system architectures to support the research and teaching mission of a leading university academic computer science department. The position seeks and evaluates state of the art technologies that advance the mission of the department, adopting and implementing relevant solutions. The systems and architectures support high performance computing, resource scheduling, virtualization, containerization, and DevOps, along with a variety of highly specialized requirements related to computer science research.

REQUIRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• A Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• At least three years of experience supporting high performance computing.
• At least three years of experience developing computing infrastructure and services to support post-secondary computer science research and teaching.
• The experience should demonstrate competence with the following:
• Building and managing VMware/Vcenter clusters.
• Cluster management technologies.
• Container management tools.
• Designing, building and administering HPC clusters and HPC storage technologies such as SAS, NVMe, and/or Fiber Channel.
• CUDA support.
• Familiarity with a large set of programming languages such as C++, Java, JavaScript, Bash, Csh, Python, Perl, etc.
• Familiarity with a large set of operating systems such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, Windows, and MacOS.
• An ability to integrate and configure the full spectrum of computing hardware componentry.

PREFERRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with the following:
• GPU and CUDA programming.
• Shared and distributed memory parallelism using OpenMP and MPI.
• Industry standard automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Red Hat, VMware, or Kubernetes certifications.

Please refer the Job description for details