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• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
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Position Summary

The Senior IT Systems Engineer will oversee a range of mission-critical Linux servers, services, and multi-tiered storage platforms at a high-performance computing facility for Columbia???s Institute for Genomic Medicine and Precision Genomic Laboratory. The incumbent will serve as the primary system administrator for a large SunGridEngine cluster (hosted), virtualization and container environment, and a growing AWS cloud presence. The position will report directly to the Director of IT in the IGM but will work closely with the Bioinformatics and Software Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend a pervasive automation solution capable of managing the complete lifecycle of all IGM Linux systems (Ansible/Puppet).
• Oversee mission critical virtualization and container environments. Ensuring system availability, recovery, performance tuning and information security.
• Administer, validate, and review user and system accounts, access controls, audit logs, and system integrity to maximize system security and ensure data confidentiality.
• Provide technical support and monitoring of all IGM systems including in-house and open source tools.
• Design, deploy, and maintain the IGM HPC environment (SGE/OGE) and cloud services (AWS).
• Researches, deploys and optimizes resource management and scheduling software and policies. Develops and implements storage policies.
• Serve as the primary contact in an on-call rotation coverage of mission critical functions.  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor???s degree or equivalent in education and experience, plus three years of related experience 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems. 
• Working in a related or research environment, Linux on-prem and cloud-based.
• 5+ years of experience managing Linux servers (RedHat/Centos) and services. Solid understanding of high availability systems, schedulers, and performance tuning.
• Proven experience in Python and Shell scripting. Familiarity with code versioning systems.
• Extensive experience designing and maintaining Linux virtual environments (RHV/oVirt/KVM), containers, and system automation.
• Thorough understanding of network design and configuration, with the ability to troubleshoot and solve network bottlenecks.
• Experience working in a diverse data center environment consisting of an HPC cluster and high-volume storage appliances (NFS/CIFS). Experience managing NetApp, Quantum Active Scale, Avere appliances is a plus.
• Extensive experience with Identity Management solutions governing users, hosts, services, authentication procedures, and authorization (FreeIPA, LDAP, Kerberos).
• Database management  (MySQL) and AWS VPC management experience.
• Familiarity with ticketing systems (ServiceNow, Redmine), project management, and data protection policies.
• Proven ability to read, understand, and apply technical documentation, and to learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members and customers, both verbally and through documentation.

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