Systems Engineer Senior

at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Opening Id: 49526

Department: IT Cyber Platform Services
Salary/Grade: ITS/82

Job Summary:

The Research Computing Infrastructure team is responsible for Northwestern University’s High-Performance Computing infrastructure. This consists of physical servers, back-end storage, operating system, integrated networking, parallel filesystem, scheduler, cloud-based infrastructure, and other associated infrastructure and applications. This includes consulting with researchers on the best solutions for their workload with could consist of deploying and managing non-HPC infrastructure.

As a Senior System Engineer, you will be member of a team responsible for managing the university’s high performance computing infrastructure and related platforms. In this role you will also participate in an on-call rotation, system architecture discussions, respond to customer requirements and inquiries using the university’s IT services management platform. You will also collaborate and partner with Internal teams including the Research Computing Services team as well as external research focused groups. Collaboration with partners and internal team members is essential to ensuring service delivery to the community meets expectations. The role reports to the manager of RCI team.

Please Note: 37.5 minimum hours per week, Monday through Friday, plus occasional evening and weekend work.  24 x 7 On call rotational schedule (averages one week per month).

Specific Responsibilities:

·        Collaborates in the planning, development, and coordination of systems related operations and projects for current and future High Performance Computing Infrastructure related initiatives within our group.

·        Provides systems recommendations regarding