Research Computing & HPC Services Lead

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Virginia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth of VA Careers seeks a Manager for Research Computing Services in Fairfax, VA. Lead the team responsible for solution engineering, deployment, and operations of the university’s research computing infrastructure.

Drive performance, innovation, and service delivery in a complex, multi-user environment. You will oversee HPC resources, storage, GPUs, and private cloud services, coordinating upgrades and capacity planning, while mentoring staff and promoting best practices across IT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience administering Linux server, other multi-user computing system, and/or cloud or virtualized hosting environment.
• Experience in a supervisory, project management, or other team leadership roles.
• Experience providing technical support to researchers.
• Experience leading a cyberinfrastructure implementation project.
• Significant experience in a systems administration/engineering role, providing support in a multi-user environment.
• Knowledge of high-performance computing cluster technologies, both hardware and software, high-speed interconnects like InfiniBand and parallel programming using MPI.
• Knowledge of batch schedulers such as SLURM.
• Knowledge of high-performance storage systems.
• Expert knowledge of Linux server operating system.
• Demonstrated skill of administering a multi-user computing environment.
• Demonstrated team performance skills, service mindset approach, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor.
• Ability to use scripting and other tools to automate processes.
• Ability to quickly understand new systems, services, applications, and technologies, analyze their place in the market and industry, and manage their adoption into university's enterprise technology portfolio.
• Ability to work cooperatively and enthusiastically with a diverse team of people.
• Ability to interact with people to create excellent customer service experiences.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and manage technical staff.
• Ability to effectively prioritize team focus and work.
• Ability to analyze, compare, and align different technology and service offerings to research computing use cases.
• Must be eligible to work in secure computing environments including ITAR and CUI.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Research Computing Services team and manage work planning, prioritization, staff scheduling, performance management, coaching, and professional development.
• Align resources to support computing, storage, visualization, and cloud service needs of the university's research community.
• Foster a collaborative, service-oriented culture promoting technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Monitor team workload to ensure timely delivery of services.
• Conduct performance evaluations and mentor staff.
• Oversee design, deployment, operation, and improvement of research computing infrastructure and services.
• Ensure HPC resources, storage, GPUs, visualization, and private cloud environments are secure, reliable, and scalable.
• Coordinate maintenance, upgrades, capacity planning, and technology refresh.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to improve productivity.
• Serve as primary technical consultant for research computing technologies.
• Collaborate with faculty and researchers to understand requirements and suggest computational solutions.
• Provide leadership in Linux environments, HPC storage, parallel computing, virtualization, GPU computing, cloud, and cyberinfrastructure.
• Assist researchers in evaluating options, estimating needs, and developing solutions.
• Support sponsored research initiatives and grant-funded projects.
• Develop training, documentation, and workshops to improve capabilities; promote SOPs and knowledge retention.
• Engage with researchers to raise awareness of services and identify new capabilities.

Skills

Team leadership

Staff scheduling

Performance management

Coaching

Linux

HPC

SLURM

OpenStack

Scripting

Cloud computing

Research computing

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

InfiniBand

Job description

Commonwealth of VA Careers seeks a Manager for Research Computing Services in Fairfax, VA. Lead the team responsible for solution engineering, deployment, and operations of the university’s research computing infrastructure.

Drive performance, innovation, and service delivery in a complex, multi-user environment. You will oversee HPC resources, storage, GPUs, and private cloud services, coordinating upgrades and capacity planning, while mentoring staff and promoting best practices across IT.