Research Computing & Systems Administrator

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Fort Collins, Colorado 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $63K - $66K 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ November 9th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Colorado State University is hiring a Research Computing & Systems Administrator. The role helps run the High Performance Computing (HPC) research clusters that serve the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, designing and maintaining the systems and giving researchers and students the programming support their grants need. The administrator also builds and maintains web-based tools for engineering faculty, staff, and students as part of the college's Engineering Technology Services group.

Highlights

Manage the college's existing HPC research clusters in the Scott Data Center, including OS and software upgrades, security patching, system configuration, and software installation.
Help researchers add CPU and GPU nodes to the clusters, and provide similar administration for clusters owned by individual research groups.
Work with researchers, faculty, students, and the Engineering Technology Services systems group on cluster architecture design within each project's funding allowance, coordinating with the financial coordinator, procurement, and vendors to secure components and manage site installation.
Provide programming support tailored to the needs of a given research grant, and design and program custom software applications.
Develop and maintain web-based tools and webpages for the college, including pages that help maintain the clusters.
Troubleshoot hardware, software, and network problems on UNIX/Linux servers and workstations, and review, test, and implement new technology services for the college.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or an associate's degree with at least two years of related work experience.
Working knowledge of Linux system administration, including NFS, Samba, ssh, TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP, plus experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, SQLite, PHP, Python, and HPC systems using Slurm or similar.
Experience with provisioning tools such as Ansible or Puppet, engineering research applications such as Matlab, Cadence, and ANSYS Fluent, and AI-assisted coding is preferred.
Salary range of $62,700 to $65,700 in a full-time role eligible for hybrid or on-site work, with occasional work outside normal business hours to support critical systems.