Systems Administrator/ Devops

Systems Administrator/ DevOps- Junior (C)/Senior(D) (Hybrid Eligible)

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Posted Job Title
Systems Administrator/ DevOps- Junior (C)/Senior(D) (Hybrid Eligible)

Job Profile Title
Systems Administrator C

Job Description Summary
The Eukaryotic Pathogen, Host & Vector Bioinformatics Resource Center project (VEuPathDB.org) is seeking a new staff member to join its Systems Administration Team, including expertise in DevOps. This open-source project supplies the global scientific community with data-mining websites that are used on a daily basis by tens of thousands of investigators for discovery research in infectious disease biology and public health.

Job Description

VEuPathDB staff include 60 scientific & IT professionals based at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), the University of Georgia (UGA), the University of Notre Dame (UND), and institutions in the UK and elsewhere, organized into multi-site performance teams dedicated to Systems Administration, Software Infrastructure, Data Loading, Scientific Outreach, etc The SysAdmin team is responsible for ensuring the security, integrity, and availability of IT resources, through the maintenance of existing infrastructure and the selection, deployment, and management of new hardware & software technologies. Operations include deployment automa tion, monitoring & alerting, and instrumentation dashboards for applications and services support ing terabyte-scale, compute-intensive IT. Our activities are increasingly focused on infrastructure as code, site reliability engineering, and DevOps collaborations with project developers. The successful applicant will work closely with all members of the SysAdmin team, as well as database administrat ors, software developers, data scientists, data center managers, and the University of Pennsylvania InfoSec team (and their equivalents at the University of Georgia). They may also liaise with project leadership, and other staff across all performance sites as noted above.

We seek experienced, forward-looking SysAdmin/DevOps personnel eager to work with a dynamic, professional IT staff to facilitate access to - and exploration of - integrated scientific data, helping to ameliorate disease worldwide. This position provides excellent benefits, including educational opportunities.

DUTIES:
•  Monitor system health and maintain a highly-available, fault-tolerant production environment at scale. Plan, develop, debug and support system automation infrastructure, using industry standard tools and custom software.
•  Manage and maintain internal systems. Work with the SysAdmin team to manage and main tain internal systems, including Puppet, LDAP, Jenkins, GrayLog, Prometheus, Docker, Traefik, Nagios, etc.
•  Remain current on new & emerging technologies, providing technical guidance for application infrastructure development, and advice regarding the possible adoption of new technologies (expected for senior post and a plus for junior post).
•  Contribute new functionality, monitoring, and automation to meet project needs. Develop and implement tools and workflows for the configuration, monitoring and management of servers, services, websites and databases; plan for future development, reflecting the shifting balance between institutional data centers & cloud-based resources.
•  Participate in collaborative meetings and other communications with project teams to coordin ate and prioritize efforts, in accord with overall project needs.
•  Provide technical user support for other project teams.
•  Contribute to project documentation, describing standard operating procedures and methods for developed or utilized tools, scripts and automations.
•  Perform other duties as required, including interactions with software engineering teams.
Senior (D) Level:

DevOps responsibilities:
•  Responsible for design and implementation of tools and workflows for the configuration, monitoring and management of servers, services, websites and databases
•  Work closely with the software engineering teams to develop and implement required tools and technologies.
QUALIFICATIONS:

C and D Levels:
•  BA/BS (In Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Biology, or similar field), with at least 2 to 3 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
•  Experience with:
•  Unix / Linux administration (RHEL preferred)
•  standard open-source tooling (LDAP, Git, named, iptables, NFS, Systemd, etc)
•  open-source web servers and deployments (Apache, NGINX, Tomcat)
•  systems automation (Puppet preferred)
•  Jenkins continuous integration
•  system scripting in at least one language (Shell, Python, PERL, etc)
•  containers (Docker, Singularity, Traefik)
•  MinIO/S3
•  monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Graylog/Fluentd, AWStats)
•  standard security policies and procedures
•  Ability to work independently, learning new skills, meeting deadlines, and soliciting feedback for project improvement over the long term.
•  Strong interpersonal skills, enabling effective communication with a collaborative team.
•  Interest and/or experience in bioinformatics and/or genomics is a plus.
•  Interest in DevOps a plus
Senior (D) Level:

BA/BS (In Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Biology, or similar field), with at least 3 to 4 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Thesenior applicant is expected to have significant DevOps experience and in-depth experience with:
•  Unix / Linux administration (RHEL preferred)
•  Standard open-source tooling (LDAP, Git, named, iptables, NFS, Systemd, etc)
•  open-source web servers and deployments (Apache, NGINX, Tomcat)
•  systems automation (Puppet preferred)
•  Jenkins continuous integration
•  system scripting in at least one language (Shell, Python, PERL, etc)
•  containers (Docker, Singularity, Traefik)
•  MinIO/S3
•  monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Graylog/Fluentd, AWStats)
•  standard security policies and procedures
Targeted Pay Range:

Systems Administrator C Level: $60,000- $100,000

Senior Systems Administrator D Level: $80,000 -$120,000

This Targeted Pay Range is only applicable to this job posting. All salary offers are made based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, as well as internal and market factors and grade profile.

Job Location - City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hybrid Eligible - This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule with a work week divided between working onsite and working remotely.

Department / School
School of Arts and Sciences

Pay Range
$61,046.00 - $132,906.66
Salary offers are made based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, as well as internal and market factors and grade profile.

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