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Auburn University

Manager, High Performance Computing

🇺🇸 Auburn, AL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $74K - $134K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ June 25th, 2025

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Edtech.com's Summary

Auburn University is hiring a Manager, High Performance Computing. This role requires leading the HPC team to support cutting-edge research by managing projects, coordinating resources, and ensuring a scalable, robust HPC environment that advances academic initiatives and meets strategic technology goals.

Highlights
  • Manage and coordinate HPC projects, ensuring quality, timeliness, and effective testing.
  • Lead and evaluate staff supporting the HPC group and Office of Information Technology mission.
  • Develop and maintain HPC strategy aligned with current technologies and research infrastructure.
  • Maintain service offerings and billing relationships with customers and internal accounting teams.
  • Collaborate across disciplines to advance Auburn University's research mission and technology vision.
  • Required skills include managing large-scale Linux clusters, HPC workload management, parallel file systems, and cloud technologies.
  • Desired knowledge of IBM GPFS, SLURM workload manager, server/storage hardware, scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python), Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, TCP/IP protocols, and multifactor authentication.
  • Educational qualifications require a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field plus five years of relevant IT experience.
  • Salary range: $74,180 - $133,530 annually.
  • Work is focused within Auburn University’s Office of Information Technology supporting research and academic partners.