Sr. Systems Architect/Administrator
Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.
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- Experience in the administration and management of Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 or greater including installation, configuration, optimization, backup and recovery.
- Experience working with network switches
- Experience in automation system configuration and management with Puppet and Ansible.
- Experience with firewall setups, networking features such as teaming, bonding, natting, static routing.
- Experience with setting and managing internal DNS and DHCP servers.
- Experience with setting up Kerberos based authentication systems such as Redhat IDP or FreeIPA.
- Experience with security based on PAM rules, filesystem ACLs.
- Experience with setting up network file systems such NFS and Samba.
- Experience with supporting GPU environments, fiber based IP and SAN networking and debugging issues at OSI layer 1 and 2.
- Experience with IBM spectrum scale file system (formerly known as GPFS) including configuring, management, upgrading and debugging.
- Experience with setting up distributed environments
- In-depth knowledge of Redhat operating systems internals, client/server computing techniques, distributed systems management concepts, server virtualization and all aspects of computer communications.
- Good working knowledge of FC SAN storage environments including multipath setups.
- Excellent problem solving, attention to detail, multitasking, communication and complex troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to gather project requirements, develop detailed project plans, schedule and execute project tasks.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
Preferred Experience
- Experience managing large-scale environments
- Experience with setting up L2 and L3 networking on switches.
- Experience in programming in at least one high-level language such Perl, Python, or bash.
- Experience with management and development tools such as Puppet, Satellite, Hiera, and Ansible.
- Experience with compiling libraries and applications from source code and managing using environment modules.
- Experience with software development
- Experience with managing GIS library sets such as gdal, envi, etc.
- Experience with parsing and analyzing logs in Splunk environment and setting up daily/monthly reports as appropriate