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.