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Insight Global Linux Engineer in Piscataway, New Jersey
Job Description
One of the largest public higher education institutions in New Jersey is seeking a Linux Engineer to join the Office of Advanced Research and Computing team. This person will be responsible for the administration and maintenance of hardware, operating system, networking, account management, and security. Responsible for deployment and support of data storage and backup. Manage end-user accounts and usage utilizing queuing software (schedulers) and other tools. Provides system services and analyze system performance for stakeholders and intended end users. Performs all activities necessary to activate a new operating system or new release of an existing system, including analysis, design, implementation, and related documentation. Analyzes systems performance and modifies programs to increase the efficiency of the operation. Reinstates integrity of system as quickly as possible following an outage in order to minimize item and data loss.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com .
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Skills and Requirements
Requires a bachelors degree preferably in computer science or engineering, plus three to five years of relevant experience in Linux system administration, systems programming or research computing, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
Very Strong Linux Command Line Skills
Requires experience in, at least, two of the following areas: HPC system administration including Linux, cluster job schedulers, parallel storage and file systems, general IP networking, high speed low-latency network interconnects, familiarity with common scripting languages, configuration management tools or programming methodologies, cybersecurity. Masters degree in a technical discipline preferred.
Experience as a system administration of a high-performance computing system is preferred.
Other areas in which experience is preferred include cybersecurity, network administration, numerical computing, IT planning, and programming, configuration management tools, databases.
Experience or at least familiarity with scientific languages, python, R, julia, fortran and installation and support of research software programs ( SAS, Matlab, stata, spss, jupyter , git, conda, R-Sudio).
Experience or at least familiarity with containers and virtual machines.
Have a comfort level working directly with researchers in finding solutions to demanding computational problems. null
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.