Linux System Administrator

Details

Posted: 07-Apr-24

Location: Upton, NY,

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: JR100810

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ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

The mission of the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) is to operate, maintain, improve, and upgrade the suite of electron, proton, and heavy ion accelerators used to carry out a program of accelerator-based experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). To support this program, the C-AD must design, fabricate, assemble, test, install, and operate unique research equipment to generate, transport, transfer, accelerate, focus, track, collide, and absorb high intensity particle beams up to energies of 250 GeV. This includes a combination of custom designed and built parts and vendor produced components developed by a collaboration of the C-AD scientific, engineering, and technical staff. The C-AD supports an international user community of over 1,500 scientists. The C-AD performs all these functions in an environmentally responsible and safe manner, under a rigorous conduct of operations approach.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Controls Software Group has an opening for a Linux System Administrator to join the team responsible for administration of the large network of computers that support the particle accelerator physics facilities at the BNL Collier-Accelerator Department. The successful candidate will work closely with fellow system administrators and with the programmers, engineers, and physicists of the C-AD department. This position has a high level of interaction with an international and multicultural scientific community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with a team of system administrators and network engineers to handle enterprise RedHat Linux operating system upgrades, configure and manage HTTP, NoMachine and RedHat Virtualization servers.

• Provide support for RAID and NAS based storage systems.

• Work with the Controls Group to set up machine configurations using Foreman and Puppet configuration management tools and ensure that all systems meet BNL cyber security requirements

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Computer Science or related discipline

• 1+ years of relevant work experience

• Administration of Linux operating systems

• Administration of networked computers

• Programming in scripting languages (i.e. - python, csh, perl, etc.)

• Demonstrated problem solving skills

• Clear and concise oral and written communication skills

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 3+ years of relevant full-time experience

Installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrades of following components:

• RedHat OS

• OS Upgrades (RedHat)

• Virtualization (RedHat)

• Storage Systems ( RAID, NAS)

• Networking (Linux client configuration)

• Machine configuration automation (Foreman, Puppet)

• HTTP Server (Appache)

• Wiki (installation, configuration)

• Remote access technology (NoMachine NX)

• System monitoring (Splunk,Nagios)

• Samba server

• Email server

• Databases (MySql)

• Veritas Tape backup

• NFS/automount

• Version control (ClearCase, GitLab)

Compensation:

Brookhaven Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. This is a multi-level role and the full salary range for this position is $70950 - $117950 / year. You will be placed at the level and salary commensurate with your experience. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate's qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.

OTHER INFORMATION:

• Appointment level will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

• Consideration for hybrid work arrangement subject to discretion of Department management.

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