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Senior HPC Systems Engineer
IT EDW Operations
Full Time
82813BR
Job Summary
The CoreHPC team at UCSF is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer to play a key role in the development, maintenance, and day-to-day operations of the Institute's HPC clusters.
The Senior HPC Systems Engineer will :
- Apply advanced systems infrastructure concepts and skills to the operations and improvement of large-scale and highly complex research Cyber Infrastructure (CI) with unique computing, networking, and storage systems designed to address cutting-edge research problems
- Apply their engineering and design skills to develop new CI solutions and to develop and enhance monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems.
- Select methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to develop new CI solutions to address complex research problems.
- Be an active member of the support and maintenance efforts for the CoreHPC cluster, resolving user issues, fixing technical problems, resolving outages, patching, and maintaining systems uptime and availability.
- Provides consultation, support and guidance to researchers on how to address computational problems using standard tools, packages and approaches.
- Develop enhancements of monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems.
- Participate in multiple technical projects simultaneously.
- Applies working knowledge of security control frameworks to maintain the integrity of the CI systems and the research being performed on them.
- Gives presentations to associated team and other technical units.
- Evaluates new technologies including performing moderate to complex cost / benefit analyses.
This position may lead cross-functional technical working groups and projects in support of onboarding research customers, or making systems improvements.
The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.
our placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification at UCSF. For positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.
The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $170,000 (Annual Rate).
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Department Description
Academic Research Systems (ARS) serves the needs of the UCSF research community by providing an integrated repository of HIPAA compliant clinical and life sciences data and a centralized, secure, professionally managed infrastructure for the storage and management of research data. ARS empowers medical scientific investigations by offering secure computing environments, data capture, management and analysis tools, and support services which meet researchers' needs.
The Core HPC team of the Academic Research Service (ARS) focuses on large scale, high performance computational and storage services for UCSF researchers so they can address complex computational, AI, and data science problems.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
About UCSF
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. We bring together the world's leading experts in nearly every area of health. We are home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging and stem cells.
Pride Values
UCSF is a diverse community made of people with many skills and talents. We seek candidates whose work experience or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence - also known as our PRIDE values.
In addition to our PRIDE values, UCSF is committed to equity - both in how we deliver care as well as our workforce. We are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Additional information about UCSF is available at diversity.ucsf.edu
Join us to find a rewarding career contributing to improving healthcare worldwide.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of California San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Organization
Campus
Job Code and Payroll Title
000520 SYS ADM 4
Job Category
Clinical Systems / IT Professionals
Bargaining Unit
99 - Policy-Covered (No Bargaining Unit)
Employee Class
Career
Percentage
100%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Campus
Mission Center Building (SF)
Work Style
Hybrid
Shift
Days
Shift Length
8 Hours
Additional Shift Details
5 / 8 (40 hrs)
Salary : $150,000 - $170,000
