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Rutgers University

IT Manager

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Piscataway, NJ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $124K - $190K 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ June 5th, 2026
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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is hiring an IT Manager for the OIT - Enterprise Infrastructure department. This role involves leading the team managing Rutgers' High-Performance Computing platforms, ensuring reliable operation and strategic development of compute, GPU, storage, and scheduling resources to support large-scale research. The manager coordinates vendor engagements and fosters collaboration to maintain secure, efficient, and cost-effective HPC services aligned with university priorities.

Highlights

  • Lead the team responsible for High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure including compute clusters, GPUs, storage, and job schedulers.

  • Ensure reliability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness of HPC services supporting research at scale.

  • Drive operational excellence and collaborate with researchers and campus IT partners.

  • Coordinate vendor relationships to build a future-ready research computing ecosystem.

  • Proficient with HPC technologies including Linux at scale, Slurm scheduler, IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS), InfiniBand, container technologies (Apptainer), and software environment management (Lmod).

  • Strong skills in automation, scripting, configuration management (e.g., Ansible), and identity services (LDAP/Active Directory).

  • Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, 7+ years IT systems administration/engineering with 3+ years of team leadership.

  • Experience with HPC hardware vendors (Lenovo, Dell, HPE), GPU/accelerators, parallel filesystems, and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).

  • Salary range approximately $124,377 to $190,290 with competitive benefits including medical, retirement, and employee educational benefits.

  • Engage with central IT, researchers, and vendors to support a multi-tenant HPC research environment in higher education.