IT Manager

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Piscataway, NJ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $124K - $190K 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ June 20th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers University is hiring an IT Manager for the OIT - Enterprise Infrastructure department. The role involves leading the team managing Rutgers High-Performance Computing platforms, ensuring the reliability and evolution of compute, GPU resources, high-performance storage, and related tools. The manager drives operational excellence, ensures secure and cost-effective HPC services, plans capacity, guides technology roadmaps, and coordinates vendor engagements to advance the research computing ecosystem.

Highlights

Lead the team responsible for Rutgers High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms and infrastructure.
Oversee reliability and evolution of clustered compute, GPU resources, storage, and scheduling tools for research.
Ensure secure, performant, and cost-effective HPC services aligned with university priorities and compliance.
Plan capacity and guide HPC technology roadmaps.
Coordinate vendor engagements to build a future-ready research computing ecosystem.
Proficient with HPC technologies including Linux at scale, job schedulers (Slurm), IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS), InfiniBand, Lmod, containerization (Apptainer), and automation tools (Ansible).
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field with minimum 7 years IT systems administration/engineering experience, including 3 years team lead experience.
Experience with HPC server hardware (Lenovo, Dell, HPE), GPUs, high-speed interconnects, parallel filesystems, and research storage.
Strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills working with researchers, IT partners, and vendors.
Salary range approximately $124,377 to $190,290, with a maximum salary listed at $150,000 and comprehensive benefits package.