System Admin III

🇺🇸 Newark, NJ

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $85K - $122K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ September 9th, 2025

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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers University is hiring a System Admin III for the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC). The role involves managing and supporting the university's advanced research computing infrastructure, including high performance and high-throughput computing environments, maintaining system performance, assisting with operating system upgrades and expansions, and providing user support and training to research communities.

Highlights

Manage and support High Performance Computing (HPC), High-Throughput Computing (HTC), and Data-Intensive Computing environments.
Administer end-user accounts using queuing software and monitor system performance.
Support operating system activation, upgrades, expansions, and system integrity recovery after outages.
Develop and maintain HPC systems, cloud infrastructure, and storage services.
Provide hardware, software, and user support to diverse research groups.
Required skills include Linux configuration management (Ansible, Puppet), virtualization, cloud technologies, monitoring tools (Nagios, Ganglia, Elasticsearch), and networking management.
Preferred expertise in batch cluster management with Slurm, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), OpenStack, and distributed file systems (GPFS).
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering (or equivalent experience) and at least four years of relevant experience are required.
Compensation ranges from $84,829 to $121,574 with a maximum budgeted salary of $119,659.
Position includes participation in an on-call rotation and adherence to Rutgers’ compliance standards.