Cyberinfrastructure Engineer

University of Chicago; Chicago (IL); Presencial; USD 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The University of Chicago’s MANIAC Lab seeks a Cyberinfrastructure Engineer to operate storage, compute and GPU infrastructure in campus data centers, connecting researchers to national-scale fabric and AI platforms.

You will work hands-on with Linux systems, Kubernetes, Ceph (via Rook) and Puppet, with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, GitOps workflows, and on-site hardware support; collaborate with a distributed team and take ownership of operations.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent in a technical field.
• Experience administering Linux-based infrastructures.
• Familiarity with cloud-native and storage technologies.

Responsabilidades

• Operate storage, compute, and GPU infrastructure in campus data centers.
• Work with Kubernetes, Ceph, and Puppet to support science collaborations.
• Provide hands-on hardware support and on-site troubleshooting.

Conocimientos

Linux administration

Distributed computing

SRE practices

Team collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Ceph (Rook)

ZFS

Puppet

Prometheus

Grafana

Helm

Git

Docker

Descripción del empleo

As the Cyberinfrastructure Engineer at the MANIAC Lab within the Enrico Fermi Institute, you will report directly to Research Assistant Professor Giordon Stark. As part of our team (https://maniaclab.uchicago.edu), you will help build and operate advanced cyberinfrastructure for science collaborations such as the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC. These collaborations rely on data-intensive, distributed computing technologies such as HTCondor, Kubernetes, and Ceph.

The Cyberinfrastructure Engineer will help operate the storage, compute, and GPU infrastructure in the University's campus data centers. This infrastructure connects researchers to the national-scale OSG fabric and to emerging AI/ML service platforms. The work combines hands-on Linux systems administration and on-site hardware support with cloud-native operations using Kubernetes, Helm, containers, and GitOps tooling. It also involves distributed storage (Ceph via Rook, ZFS), configuration management (Puppet), and monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana).

The team is collaborative and partly distributed. We meet weekly over Zoom and coordinate daily in Slack. Team members are expected to take ownership of their work and function independently. The position is jointly supported by the ATLAS Midwest Tier 2 Center (MWT2), focused on production operations, and by IRIS-HEP, focused on building the infrastructure that enables AI agents to drive physics analysis and facility operations for the HL-LHC era.