Research Technologist II (OSG/XSEDE Architect - Remote Eligible)
- Employer
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Location
- Georgia, United States
- Salary
- Salary Commensurate with experience
- Date posted
- Jul 16, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Science, Technology & Mathematics, Computer Sciences & Technology
- Employment Level
- Administrative
- Employment Type
- Full Time
About PACE:
Located in the heart of vibrant Atlanta, Georgia, the Partnership
for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) team defines and
manages centralized research computing services at the Georgia
Institute of Technology. We facilitate research efforts and foster
strategic partnerships to provide Georgia Tech researchers with an
unrivaled advantage, empowering them to lead their disciplines for
the advancement of science and society across the globe. In
addition to high-performance computing, we incorporate emerging
cloud, network, data analytics, and storage technologies. Our
growing team directly supports faculty, students, and other
researchers resulting in a dynamic environment filled with
intellectual stimulation and continuous innovation.
About the position:
In response to specific awarded NSF grants supporting significant
OSG and XSEDE resources, as well as PACE’s role in facilitation,
the OSG/XSEDE Architect position was created with the support of GT
leadership. Salary for this position is NOT contingent on securing
further awards.
Job Summary:
Significant evolution is occurring in the way Research Computing is done at regional, national, and global levels. While conventional High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters play an important role in advancing science, these localized systems can fall short in facilitating projects that require shared and flexible access to powerful research cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources across the nation or globe. The Open Science Grid (OSG) and Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) are two leading multi-institutional national-scale National Science Foundation (NSF) cyberinfrastructure projects to centralize and democratize research computing resources and knowledge across the whole nation. Georgia Tech researchers have key roles in related funded projects, including but not limited to LIGO, IceCube, CTA, and VERITAS.
The PACE team is seeking an “OSG/XSEDE Architect” to work as a
bridge between these organizations and PACE, playing a key role in
integration of local Georgia Tech resources into these national
computational grids, and defining, implementing, and supporting
PACE’s portion. As our faculty and student researcher needs
continue to evolve, the architect provides guidance and expertise
to incorporate the capabilities of OSG, XSEDE, and similar
consortia environments into PACE’s available service offerings. The
architect also consults directly with research scientists,
students, and faculty to help them effectively and efficiently
utilize all the resources PACE, OSG, and XSEDE collectively have
available.
In collaboration with other PACE Architects (e.g., with Cloud
Computing, Distributed Shared Storage, and Scheduler/Workflow
Orchestration expertise) and Georgia Tech research teams, they will
design, build, integrate, and maintain cyberinfrastructure and
scientific workflows, which in turn facilitate multi-faceted
computational and data requirements from a wide variety of
scientific domains, and assure secure end-to-end solutions and
method reproducibility.
The OSG/XSEDE Architect (Research Technologist II) is a
professional research faculty position which requires the incumbent
to possess or develop a series of specialized expertise and
technical skills including HPC and HTC scheduler technologies,
UNIX/Linux Operating system, scripting languages, software
containers, configuration management tools, scientific computation,
science hubs and gateways, and data transfer technologies. The
incumbent will be expected to follow existing best practices, as
well as suggesting new approaches to improve existing
practices.
Skills:
- Experience implementing large-scale shared research
cyberinfrastructure such as resources available within XSEDE and/or
Open Science Grid (OSG)
- Experience implementing and managing distributed shared storage
technologies
- Experience with managing and scheduling cloud and container
services (e.g. HTCondor, Slurm, Kubernetes, Slate, Docker,
Singularity)
- Experience with mainstream configuration management tools (e.g.
SaltStack)
- Experience working with researchers translating needs into
computational tasks
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to interact and collaborate with faculty, researchers,
graduate students, IT professionals, and vendors
- Ability to oversee complex and recurring cycles of design,
evaluation, deployment, and troubleshooting of technical
solutions
- Excellent troubleshooting and methodical experimentation
skills
- Good command of UNIX/Linux and mainstream scripting
languages
- Good command of RedHat Enterprise Linux system
Education:
- Preferred education is a PhD in Computer Science or related field.
- A Master’s degree and three (3) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree, or
- A Master’s degree and five (5) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a Bachelor’s degree, or
- A Doctoral degree
Contact Information:
For additional information about this position, please contact Ruben Lara at ruben.lara@oit.gatech.edu.
Other Information:
Must be a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident
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