Testbed Systems Administrator or Senior Testbed Systems Administrator- Information Trust Institute

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Urbana (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is seeking an experienced Systems and Network Administrator to maintain and grow its testbed infrastructure. You will manage testbed systems, networks, power and security, and support research projects with reliable operations.

You will install bare metal, virtualized, and containerized platforms; design internal network capabilities; and collaborate with students, faculty, and staff to align resources with research goals.

Responsibilities

• Update and maintain testbed systems and networking environment.
• Install and provision bare metal, virtualized, and containerized infrastructure.
• Monitor and balance network, power, and security of systems in the testbed systems and participate in the selection of appropriate equipment needed to support the testbed infrastructure.
• Leverage, adjust, replace, enhance, and modify testbed systems in real time to support research requirements.
• Assume additional system administrator related duties to further ITI’s mission.
• Design, develop and implement testbed capabilities and internal network design to align with current and future infrastructure needs and objectives.
• Engage students, faculty, and staff to optimize support research projects leveraging testbed resources.
• Research 3rd party tools or develop internal tools to enhance automation workflows for Testbed.
• Analyze current testbed use strategies that support enhanced architectures and re-design.
• Assist in creating documentation and use training for existing and future ITI testbed environments.
• Evaluate vendor specification sheets, work with vendors and recommend equipment configurations that best align with research project needs.
• Create documentation, review historical trends and metrics for future improvements, and create reports about system status.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

System administration

Networking

Testbed infrastructure

Documentation

Job description

Duties Responsibilities

Systems and Network Administration

• Update and maintain testbed systems and networking environment.
• Install and provision bare metal, virtualized, and containerized infrastructure.
• Monitor and balance network, power, and security of systems in the testbed systems and participate in the selection of appropriate equipment needed to support the testbed infrastructure.
• Leverage, adjust, replace, enhance, and modify testbed systems in real time to support research requirements.
• Assume additional system administrator related duties to further ITI’s mission.

Testbed Architecture and Design

• Design, develop and implement testbed capabilities and internal network design to align with current and future infrastructure needs and objectives.
• Engage students, faculty, and staff to optimize support research projects leveraging testbed resources.
• Research 3rd party tools or develop internal tools to enhance automation workflows for Testbed.
• Analyze current testbed use strategies that support enhanced architectures and re-design.

Documentation For Testbed Use

• Assist in creating documentation and use training for existing and future ITI testbed environments.
• Evaluate vendor specification sheets, work with vendors and recommend equipment configurations that best align with research project needs.
• Create documentation, review historical trends and metrics for future improvements, and create reports about system status.

Other duties as assigned