RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER-ENT

University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Alabama at Birmingham IT/HSIS is hiring to design, develop, test, and deploy applications that enable access to campus HPC, on prem cloud, container and storage platforms. You will maintain the application and set best practices for long-term maintainability.

You will provide application support to researchers, defining requirements, planning milestones, and delivering on time. Collaboration with engineers across institutions is expected to ensure solutions fit research needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science, engineering or related field required; two years of related experience.
• Experience with agile (CI/CD) methodologies and open-source tooling is required.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with researchers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy applications to support access to campus HPC and related platforms.
• Provide application support to researchers and define requirements with researchers.
• Collaborate with other software engineers to integrate tools and ensure sustainability of software.

Skills

Agile CI/CD

Team collaboration

Independent work

Documentation

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer science or engineering

Tools

Open-source tooling

Job description

FOR USE BY IT AND HSIS ONLY: Supports Enterprise Research Computing (RC) systems that are used by university researchers. Participates in the analyzing, designing, estimating, developing, documenting, testing and implementing required research systems. Maintains and enhances assigned systems as needed. Serves a direct liaison with user, technical support, training and operations personnel. Provides technical and administrative support to the research computing department. Must commit to fostering an environment of heightened security following Information Technology Security Policies and participating in security training, such as Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), on an annual basis.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work independently to design, develop, test, and deploy applications to support access to and use of a campus HPC, on‑prem cloud, container and storage platform; maintain the application; Establish a set of applicable best practices (e.g., version control, continuous integration/continuous delivery, software design, programming model, etc.), and a documentation level appropriate for the project to enable long-term maintainability and sustainability of the software; apply appropriate domain‑specific algorithms and programming techniques to advance software engineering in research computing.
• Provide application support to researchers; work with experimental researchers to help define requirements and constraints for the overall software solution; independently or in collaboration with a team, develop scope and project management plans, communicate those plans with the research team, and meet milestone delivery timelines.
• Work with other software engineers from UAB and collaborating institutions to understand existing tools and establish how they could be integrated into the new environment; initiate and/or maintain open collaboration with researchers to ensure that engineered solutions fit the research needs.
• Transfer knowledge, expertise, and methodologies by providing documentation, technical assistance and mentorship to researchers and technical staff; communicate software engineering concepts to domain experts with varying degrees of software engineering knowledge; through independent research (reading publications, etc.), discussions with researchers, and/or studying existing code bases, develop an understanding of the higher education research computing support domain sufficient to converse with world‑class researcher; maintain and expand knowledge of current and future software development tools and techniques, programming languages, and computing hardware.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

(Annual Salary: $70,425 - $114,440)

Bachelor's degree in Computer science, engineering or other relevant scientific and two (2) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Broad knowledge of the deployment and management of research computing cyberinfrastructure systems (e.g. storage, cluster computing, network, database, software, virtualized systems)
• Demonstrated team performance skills, service mindset approach, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor
• Experience with agile (CI/CD) methodologies
• Experience with modern open-source tooling and methodologies
• Ability to work independently with some oversight to meet overlapping deadlines

UAB is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, sex (including pregnancy), genetic information, age, disability, and veteran's status. As required by Title IX, UAB prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns or questions to UAB's Assistant Vice President and Senior Title IX Coordinator. The Title IX notice of nondiscrimination is located at uab.edu/titleix.

Primary Location

University

Employee Status

Regular

Shift

Day/1st Shift

Work Arrangement

Hybrid Eligible