What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Research Specialist position at UCLA?
The department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences performs extensive computational research in the fields of atmospheric science, climate science, meteorology, oceanography, and space physics. Department infrastructure and operations is built and maintained by a team of information system professionals working collaboratively with faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and research scientists.
Under supervision of the CAO and Information Systems Analyst 4, this position interacts directly with our research groups to administer mostly Linux based rackmount systems. Some time will focus on department coordination of research activities (e.g. account and hardware/software lifecycle management, network administration, etc.).
Department infrastructure consists of multiple locations hosting a range of processing and storage hardware. Best practices and standards in system designs are implemented to allow for constantly expanding datasets and processing.
Percentage of Time:
100
Shift Start:
8:00 am
Shift End:
5:00 pm
Qualifications for Position
11
Records
Qualifications
Required/Preferred
Demonstrated knowledge of Redhat Linux operating system, including account management and permissions, filesystems, and security (firewalld, SELinux)
Required
Experience with system hardware components, including protocols (PCIe, SAS/SATA) and interfaces (M.2, RAM, fiber connections)
Required
Knowledge of monitoring systems using SNMP, ansible, SMART, etc.
Required
Advanced knowledge of system tools including bash, python, snmp
Required
Experience with software development and deployment using containers and/or compilers, libraries, and makefiles
Preferred
Knowledge of networking including CIDR subnetting, firewall rules (both local tables and network ACL)
Required
Advanced knowledge of Linux filesystems (ZFS on Linux, XFS, NFSv4)
Required
Advanced knowledge of Linux hardware (LSI MegaRAID, storcli) and software (mdadm & ZFS) RAID
Required
Understanding of performance and scaling issues for large datasets (100TB to multiple petabytes)
Required
Demonstrated knowledge of enterprise account management via LDAP (AD, FreeIPA, OpenLDAP), RBAC, and system-level implementations (SSSD, SELinux)
Required
Experience with Cisco IOS and ASA VPN, Mellanox Infiniband, and ethernet protocols and hardware (esp. fiber)
Preferred
Additional Posting Information
Bargaining Unit:
99-Policy Covered
Application Deadline:
01-21-2022
External Posting Date:
Under supervision of the CAO and Information Systems Analyst 4, this position interacts directly with our research groups to administer mostly Linux based rackmount systems. Some time will focus on department coordination of research activities (e.g. account and hardware/software lifecycle management, network administration, etc.).
Department infrastructure consists of multiple locations hosting a range of processing and storage hardware. Best practices and standards in system designs are implemented to allow for constantly expanding datasets and processing.
Percentage of Time:
100
Shift Start:
8:00 am
Shift End:
5:00 pm
Qualifications for Position
11
Records
Qualifications
Required/Preferred
Demonstrated knowledge of Redhat Linux operating system, including account management and permissions, filesystems, and security (firewalld, SELinux)
Required
Experience with system hardware components, including protocols (PCIe, SAS/SATA) and interfaces (M.2, RAM, fiber connections)
Required
Knowledge of monitoring systems using SNMP, ansible, SMART, etc.
Required
Advanced knowledge of system tools including bash, python, snmp
Required
Experience with software development and deployment using containers and/or compilers, libraries, and makefiles
Preferred
Knowledge of networking including CIDR subnetting, firewall rules (both local tables and network ACL)
Required
Advanced knowledge of Linux filesystems (ZFS on Linux, XFS, NFSv4)
Required
Advanced knowledge of Linux hardware (LSI MegaRAID, storcli) and software (mdadm & ZFS) RAID
Required
Understanding of performance and scaling issues for large datasets (100TB to multiple petabytes)
Required
Demonstrated knowledge of enterprise account management via LDAP (AD, FreeIPA, OpenLDAP), RBAC, and system-level implementations (SSSD, SELinux)
Required
Experience with Cisco IOS and ASA VPN, Mellanox Infiniband, and ethernet protocols and hardware (esp. fiber)
Preferred
Additional Posting Information
Bargaining Unit:
99-Policy Covered
Application Deadline:
01-21-2022
External Posting Date:
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