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Research User Computing Linux Specialist
KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Thuwal, KSA
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Linux administration and troubleshootingUbuntuRocky LinuxNICE DCVKasm WorkspacesScripting and automation
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Role Overview
Design, operate, and continuously improve Linux-based research end-user computing platforms at KAUST.
Support Ubuntu and Rocky Linux endpoints, physical scientific workstations, and virtual scientific workstation services.
Enable secure, reliable, and high-performance scientific desktop access for faculty, researchers, and students.
Key Skills for This Role
Linux administration and troubleshootingUbuntuRocky LinuxNICE DCVKasm WorkspacesScripting and automation
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About the Role
Design, operate, and continuously improve Linux-based research end-user computing platforms at KAUST.
Support Ubuntu and Rocky Linux endpoints, physical scientific workstations, and virtual scientific workstation services.
Enable secure, reliable, and high-performance scientific desktop access for faculty, researchers, and students.
Responsibilities
- Administer and improve Ubuntu and Rocky Linux platforms and maintain workstation builds and images.
- Manage remote scientific workstation services, including NICE DCV and Kasm Workspaces.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, monitoring, and compliance activities.
- Troubleshoot Linux, remote desktop, GPU, driver, performance, identity, storage, network, and endpoint issues.
- Integrate workstations with IAM, storage, network, monitoring, security, and endpoint management services.
- Partner with research, HPC, storage, security, and advanced computing teams on scientific workflows.
- Install and maintain scientific software while considering compatibility, performance, reproducibility, and user needs.
- Maintain security controls including patching, hardening, audit logging, and endpoint security.
- Create documentation, runbooks, user guidance, dashboards, and service metrics.
- Evaluate new workstation and automation technologies and recommend service improvements.
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