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Lab Administrator

DDN Storage

Technical/Research Lab Environment Manager

Responsible for the setup, maintenance, security, and day-to-day operation of a technical/research lab environment (servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and lab-issued workstations), ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance with organizational policies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Install, configure, and maintain lab hardware (servers, storage arrays, NICs, switches) and software (OS images, drivers, monitoring tools)
  • Manage user access, accounts, and permissions across lab systems
  • Monitor system health, performance, and capacity (CPU, memory, storage, network utilization)
  • Troubleshoot hardware/software issues and coordinate with vendors for support/RMAs
  • Maintain documentation: network diagrams, asset inventories, configuration baselines, SOPs
  • Implement and enforce security policies (patching, firewall rules, access controls)
  • Manage backups, disaster recovery procedures, and data retention policies
  • Support researchers/engineers with environment setup for experiments, benchmarks, or testing (e.g., provisioning compute nodes, storage volumes, network configs)
  • Track licensing, warranties, and hardware lifecycle (procurement to decommissioning)
  • Coordinate lab scheduling/resource allocation if shared across teams

Required Skills/Qualifications

  • Strong Linux administration experience (Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS)
  • Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VLANs, bonding/LACP, basic troubleshooting)
  • Experience with storage systems (SAN/NAS, parallel filesystems like Lustre/GPFS a plus)
  • Scripting ability (Bash, Python) for automation
  • Familiarity with virtualization/containerization (KVM, Docker) is a plus
  • Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix)
  • Understanding of hardware components (CPUs, NUMA architecture, PCIe, NICs/RDMA)
  • Good documentation and communication skills

Nice to Have

  • Experience with HPC/AI infrastructure (InfiniBand, RDMA, GPU clusters)
  • Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet)
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