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UC San Diego · 1 month ago

Systems and Network Administrator - 137555

San Diego, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$97K/yr - $120K/yr

UC San Diego is a leader in cyberinfrastructure and research, operating the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The Systems and Network Administrator role involves managing and enhancing large-scale data and compute solutions, focusing on Internet measurement and cybersecurity, while also providing user support and developing virtualization solutions.

EducationHigher EducationUniversities

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, manage, enhance, maintain and document large-scale data and compute solutions, including computer systems, networking, security, and writing and executing of complex scripts

Design and implement continuous integration/deployment workflows with Ansible infrastructure-as-code (IaC)

Select and design, implement and automate processes such as vantage point onboarding and outage notifications

Select big data systems like Apache Kafka for large-scale analysis to facilitate security research use of large data archives

Perform simple to moderate cost/benefit analyses in the development of measurement instrumentation and data capture, management, processing, and dissemination systems

Develop, implement, and deploy virtualization solutions for measurement and analysis software capabilities

Build dashboards to aggregate and correlate usage statistics across data sets and time

Manage external requests (e.g., BGP peering)

Deploy new vantage points with IPv6 support

Resolve connectivity issues, migrating collectors to virtual machines, and maintain monitoring through alerts, access controls, and Grafana dashboards

Create new metadata and schemas for existing community data sets, including for integration of data into cloud platform technologies as well as enable cloud-based data access

Develop schemas for BGP data, and support compute/storage clusters for Internet Health Report activities

Perform complex security control activities through firewalls and permissions

Maintain hardware/software inventories and vantage point databases

Produce internal and public-facing documentation, and track usage statistics

Manage community software issues and task prioritization based on community workshops and meetings

Provide user support through ticketing systems

Develop virtualization solutions, manage community software priorities, and architect metadata and schemas for integrating community data sets into cloud platforms

Qualification

Unix system administrationInfrastructure-as-Code (IaC)Computer security best practicesGrafana dashboardsShell scriptingBGP routingDNS managementUser supportDocumentation

Required

Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training

Understanding of system performance monitoring and actions that can be taken to improve or correct performance. Ability to develop and maintain Grafana dashboards for real-time statistics and reporting, including the integration of diverse data sources and the design of clear, user-focused visualizations to support operational decision-making

Demonstrated experience writing and editing complex scripts used to perform system maintenance and administration. Solid experience in the development, modification, maintenance, and debugging of scripts and programs used in the automation of various system management tasks, including installation, configuration, and monitoring

In-depth experience in both the interactive and programmatic use of at least one modern Unix shell scripting language (e.g., sh, bash). Proven ability to understand, write, debug, and maintain functional and potentially complex scripts in typical administrative languages (e.g., shell, Perl, Python, PHP)

Experience in the use of all commands and utilities commonly used in the course of Unix system administration. Experience in the application of common Unix file/data processing commands, e.g., sed, awk, grep, and related utilities

Advanced knowledge of computer security best practices and policies including demonstrated experience securing server-based software. Experience performing certificate authority support

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) implementations (e.g., Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Azure)

Demonstrated strong experience with setup, operation and maintenance of Unix operating systems (specifically, Ubuntu)

Company

UC San Diego

Glassdoor4.1

UC San Diego Extension is an online research university for community leaders and professionals.

Founded in 1966

La Jolla, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://extension.ucsd.edu/

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