Role Summary Responsible for the setup, maintenance, security, and day-to-day operation of a technical/research lab environment (servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and lab-issued workstations), ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance with organizational policies. Key Responsibilities • Install, configure, and maintain lab hardware (servers, storage arrays, NICs, switches) and software (OS images, drivers, monitoring tools) • Manage user access, accounts, and permissions across lab systems • Monitor system health, performance, and capacity (CPU, memory, storage, network utilization) • Troubleshoot hardware/software issues and coordinate with vendors for support/RMAs • Maintain documentation: network diagrams, asset inventories, configuration baselines, SOPs • Implement and enforce security policies (patching, firewall rules, access controls) • Manage backups, disaster recovery procedures, and data retention policies • Support researchers/engineers with environment setup for experiments, benchmarks, or testing (e.g., provisioning compute nodes, storage volumes, network configs) • Track licensing, warranties, and hardware lifecycle (procurement to decommissioning) • Coordinate lab scheduling/resource allocation if shared across teams Required Skills/Qualifications • Strong Linux administration experience (Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS) • Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VLANs, bonding/LACP, basic troubleshooting) • Experience with storage systems (SAN/NAS, parallel filesystems like Lustre/GPFS a plus) • Scripting ability (Bash, Python) for automation • Familiarity with virtualization/containerization (KVM, Docker) is a plus • Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix) • Understanding of hardware components (CPUs, NUMA architecture, PCIe, NICs/RDMA) • Good documentation and communication skills Nice to Have • Experience with HPC/AI infrastructure (InfiniBand, RDMA, GPU clusters) • Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet)