The University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences is among the world’s leading academic units dedicated towards tackling society’s most pressing concerns. Our internationally renowned experts bring satellite data processing and geospatial technologies to the forefront of scientific discovery. Through our research and teaching, our faculty, staff, and students advance cutting-edge solutions for climate change, biodiversity, wildfire, food security, global health, sustainability, and poverty. We are searching for a Senior Systems Engineer to help us design a path towards implementing new technologies to meet the Department’s growing needs.
This position is a 12-month, full-time status. This position offers excellent benefits, including but not limited to health insurance, a generous leave package from the first year (accrued at 22 days-annual leave, 3 days-personal leave & 14 days sick leave), retirement subsidy (ORP/Pension), tuition remission and professional development opportunities. The salary range for this position has been established from $120,000 to $160,000 per year, depending on qualifications. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This position has flexible work hours with the possibility of working two days a week from home. GEOG promotes growth in individuals and a healthy work-life balance within a collaborative culture.
Duties:
Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for the full life cycle management of the department’s IT. We are looking for someone to join our team and work with us to manage day-to-day IT issues in the department and help us strategically develop our IT services to meet the needs of our cutting-edge research and teaching. The candidate should have excellent problem-solving, communication, and troubleshooting skills.
- Gathering requirements and designing solutions to meet the research needs of the Department
- Creating solutions to meet the unique needs of research teams
- Manage the full life cycle of the department’s IT
- Team-Lead for a small team of System Administrators.
- Ensure appropriate levels of security for the department’s IT infrastructure
- Working with the Director of Administrative Services to develop and implement a chargeback model for IT services
- Creating, maintaining and improving internal policies and documentation
- Interfacing with campus IT services to ensure the department’s IT services are aligned with campus goals
Existing Technologies:
Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for full life cycle management of the department’s VMware VDI, Web servers, Hadoop clusters, SFTP servers, and database servers including designing and setting up distributed computing, associated storage, security, patching and automation of configuration and deployment. Experience with tools such as Puppet, Redhat Satellite and Ansible is preferred. The tasks will include provisioning new systems, OS patches, and managing backups and configuration states for our workstations, clusters and servers. You will also help us to troubleshoot existing systems, ensuring system security, maximum uptime and service stability.
Familiarity in several of the following areas is strongly preferred.
- VMWare
- Cloudera or open-source Hadoop
- RedHat Enterprise Linux, Satellite Server, and/or IPA services
- Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2019 or later
- macOS Ventura and Monterey (13.x and 12.x) or later
- Apache httpd and/or tomcat installation, configuration, tuning and maintenance
- Drupal
- various SQL database servers, including MySQL, MariaDB and/or Postgres
- GeoServer
- ESRI ArcGIS services
- KVM/libvirt
- Ethernet network installation, configuration and management, including layer2 and layer3, in a server/datacenter environment