Jobs UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

At the University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute, researchers from the life sciences, physical sciences, computer science and engineering are working together to uncover new knowledge at the frontiers of science and partnering with industry to transform their discoveries into new tools.

The BioFrontiers Institute is uniquely defined both by our excellent faculty, research, and leadership and by the scientific and geographical ecosystem that empowers our work. At BioFrontiers, we have an outstanding "frontier" culture that enables researchers to explore new areas of bioscience by enhancing resources and talents across the Institute and the university system. The Institute integrates faculty members from eleven academic departments, allowing them to work across fields. BioFrontiers drives innovation without boundaries.

• Diagnose, solve, and implement solutions for the BioFrontiers storage resources and computational clusters.
• Provides primary management of BioFrontiers computational and storage services including all subsequent offerings and will independently make decisions for these functions.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for BioFrontiers scientific computing resources including technical guidance of junior staff and student employees.
• Primary tasks may include hardware repairs, operating system installation and configuration, system software updates, and procedure automation.
• Assist with network hardware and network service maintenance and configuration. Respond to end-user queries.
• Install, update, test, document, and maintain open-source and commercial software packages used by supported researchers.
• Maintain environment modules.
• Acquire and maintain licenses for commercial software.
• Assist end-users with the usage of centrally-maintained software and libraries; and configuring, compiling, installing, debugging, and optimizing their own software.
• Daily maintenance operations for all BioFrontiers HPC hardware and storage resources including, but not limited to, installation, disk replacements, parts replacement and hardware troubleshooting.
• Advise BioFrontiers IT leadership on necessary expenditures and improvements of computing resources.
• Proactive daily monitoring and health checks of the BioFrontiers computing and storage infrastructure. Use and extension of existing Nagios/Zabbix/Icinga infrastructure, and development of additional monitoring scripts.
• This position will require independent planning and design of monitoring services and continued improvement of the same.
• Maintain and/or create documentation in support of the BioFrontiers Computing Infrastructure.
• Train storage and computational users on existing BioFrontiers systems and efforts. This will consist of individual training, teaching of training courses, and participation in workshop teaching efforts.

• A hybrid work modality is available with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote per week.
• Work hours include standard business hours with occasional off-hours maintenance windows and emergency response times as needed. 

The annual hiring range for this position is $97,775 - $117,500. Relocation is available for eligible candidates.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Natural Sciences, or related field.
• Three years of relevant experience as described below.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience as described below may substitute.

Knowledge of, and production experience with, a combination of the following:

• Compiling, installing, and/or developing scientific or engineering software in a Linux environment.
• Building, configuring, and administering Linux or Unix computer systems.
• Diagnosing system and application software problems.
• Experience programming in C, or C++.
• Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git or Subversion) and GitLab.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Salt).
• Experience with network filesystems, particularly NFS and CIFS.
• Knowledge of, or experience in, networking systems and software including DNS, LDAP, and TCP/IP .

• Exercise independent judgment and decision-making skills for guiding a complex service and all subsequent requirements.
• Networking with campus technical resources to assist in providing support for research operations.
• Proficiency with video-conferencing solutions to assist in everyday tasks including technical support.
• Ability to work effectively both within a team and also independently.
• Ability to communicate with end-users via an electronic ticketing system, by phone, or in person.
• Ability to follow through with assignments and commitments in a timely and professional manner.

• Experience in system and related network administration of complex computer systems, specifically Linux systems and preferably Linux clusters. Experience in end-user support.
• Experience with software building and configuration tools (e.g., makefiles, autoconf, or environment modules).
• Familiarity with parallel programming (e.g. OpenMP, MPI).
• Familiarity with ticket tracking systems.
• Experience working in an environment with constantly evolving job priorities.
• Administrative experience with Slurm workload manager.
• Administrative experience with ZFS and ZFS native replication tools.
• Administrative experience with NetApp storage systems.
• Administrative experience with Dell PowerScale storage systems.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and execution for enterprise-grade storage operations.
• Experience with hands-on hardware troubleshooting and maintenance tasks.
• Administrative experience with parallel file systems, especially BeeGFS.