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Lab Administrator

Columbia, MDOnsiteFull TimePosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Linux administration
  • Ubuntu
  • RHEL
  • CentOS
  • Networking fundamentals
  • TCP/IP
  • VLANs
  • bonding/LACP
  • storage systems
  • SAN

Nice to have

  • virtualization
  • KVM
  • containerization
  • Docker
  • HPC/AI infrastructure
  • InfiniBand

Role summary

This role is responsible for the setup, maintenance, security, and daily operation of a technical/research lab environment. Key duties include managing lab hardware and software, monitoring system health and performance, troubleshooting issues, implementing security policies, managing backups and disaster recovery, and supporting researchers with environment setup. The role also involves tracking hardware lifecycle, licensing, and warranties, and coordinating lab scheduling if resources are shared.

Role Summary 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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