University of Alaska Fairbanks
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

Job Vacancy Announcement

Department: Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Position: Senior High Performance Computing System Programmer/Analyst IV - General
PCN: 925037
Salary: Range 82, DOE.
Job Duration: Term-Funded, Full-Time, Exempt
Opening Date: October 18, 2000
Closing Date: December 1, 2000

Responsibilities:

As a member of the Technical Services team, this position provides systems support for the high performance supercomputers and visualization computers of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, including operating system, network, storage management and third party software installation, maintenance, upgrades and troubleshooting. It also includes use of technical expertise to ensure operational availability and effective use of the supercomputers at the Center.

Major Duties:

• Perform day to day system status review and troubleshooting, and work with vendors as necessary, to ensure fully functioning high availability supercomputing systems and infrastructure.
• Provide oncall support in rotation with other staff to resolve system problems after hours.
• Ensure that information and network systems are operated, managed, secured and used in accordance with local security policies and procedures and Department of Defense requirements.
• Install, inventory, modify, maintain, test and integrate system software to provide access to instructional and research applications systems and software tools with minimal negative impact to users.
• Research and develop tools for the collection and analysis of performance data to examine andtune the systems and give profiles of system utilization and performance and make recommendations to management concerning future computing requirements.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for software and utilities and operational procedures for locally developed systems, local customizations and local procedures.
• Provide technical and consulting support, and vendor interface, for other staff and users.
• Be cognizant of and promote technological advances relating to the use the ARSC high performance computing resources.
• Perform analysis, develop and modify software and systems using software engineering practices to circumvent problems and enhance computing environment.
• Lead systems projects involving other team members, provide technical expertise for, and coordinate with, other ARSC staff to perform system upgrades and installations.

Education and Experience Required:

• M.S. in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Position will require access to machines processing sensitive data. Employee will be required to apply for National Agency Check (NAC) as required by ARSC's Department of Defense sponsor.
• Experience in systems software implementation and maintenance management or leading operating system upgrades.
• Demonstrated proficiency in usage and support of high performance computing systems.
• Extensive experience in leading system installations and upgrades, storage management solutions, information or network security.
• Excellent communication skills and experience in writing documentation for internal users.
• Interpersonal and communications skills to provide technical and consulting support with internal and external staff and users.
• Ability to plan, present scope and impacts for, and lead large projects.
• Demonstrated proficiency in usage and support of some of the following in a production environment:
  1. High performance computing systems.
  2. Operating system for clusters or mpp systems.
  3. Workstation tools and network access between workstations and supercomputers, e.g. SGI or Sun workstations, PCs, Macintoshes, XWindow applications, distributed processing.
  4. Debugging problems related to various network protocols such as TCP/IP, SNMP, NFS, DFS, NIS, ethernet, Gigabit ethernet, FDDI, HiPPI.
  5. StorageTek robotic tape silos (or similar equipment).
  6. Programming in C or C++.
  7. Programming in Fortran or Fortran 90.
  8. Accounting software and performance tools on large Unix systems.
  9. Resource measurement, tuning, reporting; capacity planning.

Application

Applicants must submit a letter of interest, complete resume, and the name, address, phone number and email address of three professional references to:

Kathleen Hill
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Institute for Northern Engineering
521 Duckering Building
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5910

For information about Arctic Region Supercomputing Center please visit www.arsc.edu

A copy of the UA Employment Application Form can be obtained from any of the UA Human Resources offices or downloaded from this site at: http://www.uaf.edu/uafhr/pdf_files/employment_app_0998.pdf

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA IS AN EEO/AA EMPLOYER AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION. Persons hired by the University of Alaska must comply with provisions of the 1986 Immigration Control Act and are expected to possess a valid social security number.

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