Research Solutions Architect
Our client is looking for an exceptional Research Solutions Architect to join our team. The Research Solutions Architect will lead all aspects of the technical planning, building, and running of our client’s IT research offerings, including High-Performance Computing (HPC) offerings and Research Storage. Working closely with research faculty and staff, you will continue to enable and advance the client’s world-class research.
As a Research Solutions Architect, you will be a principal subject matter expert within the I&ITS Infrastructure and Operations team. You will make strategic recommendations and hold tactical and operational oversight of I&ITS research offerings. This will require combining deep technical experience and knowledge, business analysis skills, and the ability to effectively build relationships with research faculty and leadership. You will be vital in ordinating efforts of other teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment with the campus vision towards overall mission — to continue to deliver innovative and cutting-edge research solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Advising clients and technical subject matter experts on best practices for documenting system requirements
• Analyzing business and operational requirements to plan the implementation of new IT systems
• Analyzing and configuring highly complex enterprise applications and services
• Developing and updating architectural framework for highly complex and confidential university-wide IT systems
• Researching, analyzing and recommending potential changes to system features
• Leading and planning IT projects
• Defining requirements and scope of complex projects with broad impact and long-term consequences
Qualifications:
Essential Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum eight years of hands-on system administrator experience in a complex and heterogeneous environment comprising Windows Server, CentOS, and Ubuntu Linux systems
• Minimum eight years of hands-on experience implementing and managing datacenter infrastructure including servers and networking
• Minimum five years of hands-on experience implementing and administering moderate/large scale, multi-user research compute cluster(s) with industry-standard tools, like Bright cluster management, Slurm and both open- and closed-source applications
• Minimum five years of hands-on experience implementing and managing large, scalable storage solutions such as object-based storage or clustered file systems
• Minimum five years of hands-on experience working with containers such as Docker or Apptainer/Singularity
• Minimum two years of experience working with GPUs, including NVIDIA’s data center platforms
• Deep understanding of Software Development Life Cycles, system and application security hardening, vulnerability assessment and enterprise patch management
• Knowledgeable in Python
• Excellent organizational, time management, prioritization and delegations skills
• Ability to plan and perform major, complex implementations within ITSM and ITIL Change Management standards
• Ability to solve complex technical and logistical problems and communicate, both verbally and in writing, effectively with non-technical teams
• Experience creating, expanding, and maintaining relationship with vendors Assets (Nonessential):
• ITIL foundations level (or higher) certification
• Demonstrated experience working in a structured change management environment (CAB?or equivalent body)
• Familiarity with Statistical suites such as SPSS, MatLab, SAS
• Experience working with the ServiceNow platform • Familiarity with the University environment, governance, and policies
• Experience with datacenter supporting infrastructure, including power and cooling management
To be successful in this role you will be:
• Accountable
• Decisive
• Diplomatic
• Goal oriented
• Problem solver
• Team player