Senior Cyberinfrastructure Lead for IceCube Computing

University of Wisconsin; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 122,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

The IceCube Computing Manager at the University of Wisconsin–Madison leads a team of eight to ten IT professionals responsible for IceCube computing facilities, data management, and collaboration with IceCube partners worldwide. This role coordinates operations across distributed computing resources and oversees performance reporting to the NSF and project leadership.

You will work with a diverse international research community, drive hardware/software improvements, and ensure secure, scalable

Qualifications

• Experience leading and mentoring a team of computing and/or software professionals.
• Proven ability to collaborate across multi-institutional scientific or academic collaborations.
• Hands-on background in distributed High Throughput Computing and storage services for large data sets.
• Experience coordinating access and operations across remote and/or distributed computing centers.
• Experience summarizing performance, requirements, and operational plans in reports for internal leadership and/or federal grant sponsors (e.g., NSF), as well as presenting infrastructure strategies at conferences or through publications.

Responsibilities

• May advise institutional or divisional leadership on CI topics. Participates in the planning and development of institution-wide IT and research computing initiatives and strategies - 10%
• Directs the technical aspects of cyber infrastructure projects. Contributes to research computing, data science, and/or CI research proposals with internal and external partners. May lead a proposal as Principal Investigator - 15%
• Applies advanced and complex research computing, data, and/or CI research and development concepts to plan, design, develop, modify, debug, deploy, and evaluate highly complex research computing systems (software and/or hardware,) data science or computational science workflows, or CI software and technologies - 20%
• Applies advanced research and development practices, community standards, and department policies and procedures. Contributes to research and CI policy development for the department, research center, division, or institution - 5%
• Contributes to or prepares reports of project status and/or technical research for professional organizations, government/sponsors review boards, and design reviews - 5%
• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees - 10%
• Technical coordination with internal and external stakeholders - 10%
• Manages a team of research and technical staff providing CI resources and support. Directs the design, implementation, and recommendation of new hardware and software technologies for advancing complex research computing, data science, and CI projects - 25%

Skills

Team leadership

Collaboration across institutions

Distributed computing infrastructure

Reporting and documentation

Proposal & funding experience

Education

Master's degree+ in Physics/CS or related field

Job description

The IceCube Computing Manager at the University of Wisconsin–Madison leads a team of eight to ten IT professionals responsible for IceCube computing facilities, data management, and collaboration with IceCube partners worldwide. This role coordinates operations across distributed computing resources and oversees performance reporting to the NSF and project leadership.

You will work with a diverse international research community, drive hardware/software improvements, and ensure secure, scalable