Systems & Network Administrator for Scientific Compute & Infra

Caltech; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 56,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Caltech is recruiting a System Administrator to deploy, maintain, and extend critical computing infrastructure at the LIGO Hanford Observatory. You will collaborate with local and remote sysadmins to design and implement projects, leveraging DNS, DHCP, LDAP, containers, VMs, Kubernetes, and clustered storage.

You will enable researchers and engineers by providing reliable infrastructure, supporting a diverse set of challenges on a world-leading gravitational wave observatory project.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience with Windows or macOS.
• 2+ years of experience with Linux.
• Ability to support site infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, LDAP).
• Familiarity with automated configuration management systems (Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible).
• Experience with end-user support, remote or in-person.
• Strong communication and systems documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• System Administration - 35%: Manage multiple heterogeneous data centers; coordinate with other admins; provide app support across DB, business, engineering, and science apps; manage VM, container services; support backup systems; administer Linux/Mac/Windows servers and workstations.
• Maintenance and Install - 20%: Apply system updates; lifecycle upgrades; maintain hardware and software; support scientific data analysis cluster and user issues (network, wireless, printing, laptops, software).
• Other Duties - 10%: As assigned.

Skills

Windows/macOS support

Linux

DNS/DHCP/LDAP

Automation tools

End-user support

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Salt

Ansible

Kubernetes

Proxmox

HTCondor

Job description

Caltech is recruiting a System Administrator to deploy, maintain, and extend critical computing infrastructure at the LIGO Hanford Observatory. You will collaborate with local and remote sysadmins to design and implement projects, leveraging DNS, DHCP, LDAP, containers, VMs, Kubernetes, and clustered storage.

You will enable researchers and engineers by providing reliable infrastructure, supporting a diverse set of challenges on a world-leading gravitational wave observatory project.