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Lead of Storage Administration
  • Job Number: 23896
  • Functional Area: Information Technology
  • Department: Office of Research Computing and Data
  • School Area: VP Research
  • Employment Type: Full-time (Hybrid)
  • Employment Category: Exempt
  • Visa Sponsorship Available: No
  • Schedule: M-F


Job Description

LEAD OF STORAGE ADMINISTRATION, Office for Research Computing and Data (ORDC), to support MIT's research computing community.  Will manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters and storage and play a vital role supporting systems at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, working closely with multiple teams.  

A full job description is available on the ORDC website.  

Job Requirements

REQUIRED:  bachelor’s degree in computer science, bioinformatics, or a related field; at least five years’ experience in an HPC/research computing environment (Linux, Unix) and managing enterprise and open source storage systems; advanced-level knowledge of Linux (RHEL), xCAT, Salt, KVM, Qemu, and Slurm; advanced-level knowledge of ZFS, XFS, LVM, NFS, SMB, Ceph, and RBD; experience migrating petabytes of data; an interest in service delivery and open source solutions and understanding of the storage support and engineering process; comfort working with wiki and ticketing tools (Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, or equivalent); and ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with both technical teams and non-technical clients and partners.  PREFERRED:  three years’ experience in a dev ops or application engineering environment; experience with multipath, SAS, SCSI fencing, iDRAC, IPMI, Pacemaker, and Corosync; experience with backup solutions (e.g., TSM); completion of Red Hat certified system administrator program; ability to compile and troubleshoot Linux source code and packages; and knowledge of storage and data management public Cloud services such as S3, EBS, or FSx for Lustre.  Job #23896-10

This is a full-time position. A hybrid schedule is available, with a minimum of three days each week on-campus. 

4/2/24