[ALE-jobs] Linux System Administrator position available with Emory University

[Robert Tweedy]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to put this out there for anyone in the local Atlanta area 
who might be interested: we're currently looking to fill some Linux 
SysAdmin positions in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Emory 
University.

The job posting below (geared towards an experienced SysAdmin with an 
engineering mindset & good management skills) is the only one that's 
officially opened at the moment, though we're also aiming to post a 
position for an additional Jr. or Sr. SysAdmin with slightly lower 
experience requirements within the year so feel free to reach out if 
you're interested but don't quite meet all the experience requirements 
outlined here, especially if you have experience architecting unified 
on-prem/cloud storage systems/solutions in GCP or AWS.

If you have any informal questions about the position, feel free to 
reach out to me or the address provided in the job posting. All formal 
applications need to be sent only per the directions outlined in the job 
posting; sending them to my personal address will result in them being 
discarded for demonstrating an inability to follow directions.

Just in case the formatting of this email doesn't come through the list 
correctly, the full job posting can be found at 
https://staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/88590/senior-manager%2c-information-technology---department-of-biomedical-informatics/job


Job Description:

> Emory’s Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) is seeking a Senior Manager of Information Technology to lead the expansion of its on-premise and cloud computational environment. The DBMI comprises about 100 researchers performing cutting-edge research on medical data using state-of-the-art machine learning and signal processing approaches on large data sets. The HIPAA-compliant storage and compute environment involves a complex distributed PHI protected infrastructure consisting of an HPC cluster, GPU cluster (NVIDIA DGX) and a ~200TB parallel file system. Detailed description about our computational facilities can be found here: https://med.emory.edu/departments/biomedical-informatics/research/facilities.html. Researchers at DBMI also work on GCP, AWS and Azure. We have a particularly strong relationship with Google, with which we work closely to innovate cloud infrastructures.
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> From early on, you’ll help empower cutting-edge research, be given challenging assignments, lead initiatives, and take ownership and hands-on responsibility for design, development and deployment of research infrastructure. You’ll be given the opportunity for exceptional training with global leaders across industry and academia to help you become a leader in your field. Working with an additional dedicated system admin and multiple core research engineers, you will be supporting the infrastructure for world-class research applying AI to Health.
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> The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong systems engineering background and is someone looking for the next step in their Linux server administration/systems engineering career path, with opportunities to work across the entire infrastructure stack (hardware/software/network/cloud) and further opportunities to develop deeper skills in specific areas.
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> Job Tasks and Responsibilities:
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>     Maintain and upgrade the DBMI HIPAA compliant computing environment. You will work in a systems team that already includes one System Administrator and may expand to include a third system administrator in the future.
>     Provide documentation and technical specifications to the Chair and Vice Chair for planning and implementing new or upgrades of IT infrastructure.
>     Responsible for capacity, storage planning, and database performance.
>     Responsible for IT security, particularly with health information.
>     Monitor datacenter health using preexisting management tools and respond to hardware issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers as needed.
>     Work with Emory University and Emory Healthcare IT teams on issues pertaining to data access, networking and compliance of Emory policies.
>     Adopt best practices for systems administration. This includes:
>         Running diagnostics, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing the impact of issues.
>         Perform or delegate regular backup operations and implement appropriate processes for data protection, disaster recovery, and failover procedures.
>         Perform routine/scheduled audits of the systems, including all backups.
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> MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
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>     A bachelor's degree and seven years of related IT experience including demonstrated technical expertise in specific IT areas, project management skills and lead or supervisory experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
>     Extensive experience in the implementation and production support of an enterprise system.
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> PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
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>     RedHat or RHEL-equivalent (CentOS/Rocky Linux/Scientific Linux/etc.) System Administrator certified or equivalent experience.
>     Experience working in, and maintaining a HPC environment. Batch systems like PBS/SLURM.
>     Experience in deploying and maintaining high-speed interconnects, especially Infiniband.
>     Experience managing parallel and cluster file systems such as NFS, Gluster, Lustre, etc..
>     Experience in managing virtual machine farms (oVirt, KVM).
>     Experience in scripting and automation tools (Bash, Perl, Python, Ansible, etc.).
>     Strong organizational and documentation skills. Strong people skills to provide a service-focused operation internally to the department, working across departments, and with external entities.
>     Familiarity with identity management, security tools and best practices (e.g. LDAP, FreeIPA, SELinux, HIPAA).
>     Familiarity with Debian or Ubuntu Server-based Linux distributions and their system management differences from RHEL-like distributions.
>     Familiarity with real-time data stream management systems (Kafka, Flink, etc.).
>     Familiarity with server monitoring tools such as Nagios or Ganglia.
>     Experience in using and maintaining the following cloud applications or similar are useful but not required: GSuite, Salesforce, GitHub, Asana, and Mailchimp.
>     Strong preference would be given to candidates with familiarity with cloud-based systems, containerization, and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes. System administration and IT certifications in AWS and GCP, or other network-related fields are a plus.
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> Please respond to this job posting via email (jobs*at*dbmi.emory.edu) Using the subject line “Job Ref 88590: Sr Mgr, Information Technology” with: A cover letter summarizing your interest and experience; and a resume, attached in PDF or MS Word format, including your updated contact information, contacts of references and salary expectations.
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> For more information or informal inquiries, please contact jobs*at*dbmi.emory.edu.
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> NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic, with intent to return to an Emory University location in the future.  Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.
> To ensure the safety of our campus community, the COVID-19 vaccine is required. For more information on the University and Hospital policies and potential exemptions, please see our website.