System Administrator

Tertiary or graduate qualification in Science, Computing or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Experience in the administration of Linux or Unix systems.

The ability and willingness to spend time learning not only the specific systems you will be responsible for maintaining, but also the systems connected to those systems, and the tools associated with the main system and those related systems.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to use these skills to engage effectively with colleagues and clients.

The ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team under the general guidance of senior technical staff.

The ability and willingness to contribute novel ideas and approaches in support of providing computing services to researchers or clients.

Knowledge of programming languages (such as Python) and source code management tools.

Experience operating Ceph storage infrastructure, other storage technologies (e.g. tape-backed systems such as DMF, TSM, Versity ScoutAM), or OpenStack.

Experience with Internet technologies such as web servers, database servers and mail servers.

Exposure to High-Performance Computing environments (e.g. experience with workload schedulers such as Slurm or PBS Pro), high-performance filesystems (Lustre, VAST, Weka) or container orchestration environments.

Demonstrated success in managing compute and storage systems in a research environment.

Experience with automation, testing or provisioning technologies such as Ansible, MAAS, xCat, Redhat Satellite, HPE HPCM, goss and Jenkins.

Exposure to the design and deployment of new services or platforms for use by researchers or clients.

For full details about this role, and other criteria, please review the Position Description .

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