Cyberinfrastructure Specialist I

• Monitor and optimize throughput of HPC jobs that include complex computational tasks and big data processing.
• Engage with researchers to enhance the efficiency and performance of HPC applications and workflows, including the gathering benchmark metrics.
• Participate in outreach events and workshops to educate and update users about HPC developments, tools, and resources.
• Support team members in ongoing HPC enhancements, maintenance and upgrades.
• Working with others on complex R&D projects involving teams of scientific researchers, hackers, and developers.

• Address user questions and concerns, including troubleshooting cloud-related issues.
• Provide first-response to user issues and escalate when necessary, providing incident report documentation.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure and services, respond to alerts, and take appropriate actions to maintain system performance and availability.
• Create and update knowledge base articles, FAQs, and support documentation.

• Troubleshooting of network connectivity, routing, and switching issues.
• Assist with managing and maintaining the physical cabling infrastructure.
• Assist with the configuration and setup of routers and switches.
• Work alongside network engineers to implement changes and updates to network and switch configuration.
• Maintain accurate network documentation and produce reports on network performance.

• Engage with users via a ticketing system.
• Be proactive in providing support to users and groups, reach out to existing users and ensure the user experience on the Cyberinfrastructure is not lacking.
• Provide support to users, addressing their technical questions and resolving or escalating system-related problems.
• Assist users with account management, access permissions, and user education on best practices.

• Collaborate with users to ensure applications run efficiently, meeting both performance requirements and user expectations.
• Provide training to users, as needed.
• Install and deploy applications as needed by users.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application-related issues.
• Support planning and execution of application upgrades and deployments.

• Develop and implement data management plans that comply with NIST/CMMC standards, ensuring proper data handling, storage, and retention.
• Educate researchers and stakeholders on data management best practices and policies.
• Audit current practices and deployments to ensure they are in compliance with the Industry Standards.

• Manage storage devices to store and retrieve large volumes of data for various research computing applications and platforms.
• Optimize storage systems for performance, scalability, and disaster recovery.

• Work with the security team to conduct regular security assessments and reviews of the cyberinfrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and risks.
• Recommend and implement security postures and protocols to mitigate potential threats and breaches.
• Manage and monitor infrastructure security.
• Work with GW Information Security team to support infosec related activities.
• Facilitate consistent identity and group management throughout research cyberinfrastructure with Enterprise Active Directory.

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a scientific, mathematical, or technical field, though non-technical degrees with technical work experience will also be considered.
• Proficiency in managing applications, both off-the-shelf and custom, and troubleshooting related issues.
• Experience performing and supporting research in an academic environment.
• Knowledge of system administration principles, including system monitoring, hardening, and performance optimization and familiarity with containers and container management.
• Familiarity with HPC systems, parallel computing, and big data processing.
• Experience with penetration testing, intrusion detection, mitigation and prevention practices.
• Understanding of public cloud services and integrating these systems with on-premise infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles and practices.
• Experience providing user support with excellent customer service skills and ability to effectively document solutions.
• Effective problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, and ability to balance effectively multiple concurrent tasks.
• Applications development background with analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with relational databases in a research environment and data modeling in support of research.
• Solid fundamentals of modern packet switch networks and current Internet technologies, including IPv6.
• Ability to work and communicate with others on complex projects while sometimes developing the workflows and processes needed to support research.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to prepare and present comprehensive presentations to IT and business executives.
• Passion for building systems, a willingness to learn, and the ability to program, along with strong, applied systems engineering skills.

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