IT Manager

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Piscataway, NJ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $124K - $190K 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ August 11th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers University is hiring an IT Manager for the OIT - Enterprise Infrastructure department. The IT Manager leads the team responsible for Rutgers High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms, oversees the reliability and evolution of HPC infrastructure, drives operational excellence, ensures HPC services meet university priorities and compliance standards, and coordinates vendor engagements to build a future-ready research computing ecosystem.

Highlights

Lead team managing HPC platforms, clustered compute, GPU resources, high-performance storage, and related scheduling tools.
Ensure security, performance, cost-effectiveness, capacity planning, and technology roadmaps for HPC services.
Collaborate with researchers, campus IT partners, and vendors.
Required expertise includes HPC technologies at scale, Linux, Slurm workload manager, IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS), InfiniBand interconnects, container technologies (Apptainer), and automation tools (Ansible).
Minimum 7 years in IT systems administration/engineering with 3 years team lead experience; bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field required.
Experience with research storage, HPC cluster provisioning, job schedulers, scientific software environments, monitoring tools, and identity management (LDAP/AD).
Preferred qualifications include advanced degree, experience managing multi-tenant HPC environments, GPU cluster design, cost modeling, compliance workflows, and vendor/contract management.
Compensation range spans $124,377 to $190,290, with a maximum listed as $150,000 and final offer based on qualifications and funding.
Full-time position with 37.5 standard hours; hybrid work arrangements may be available.
Works within Rutgers’ Enterprise Infrastructure, supporting research computing and compliance in a higher education setting.