Lab Administrator

Job details

Work model

On-site

Salary

$85K - $110K

Location

Columbia Office

Hiring context

How this role compares at DDN

DDN has 94 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 9 job families, and 20 of them are in data & analytics. 20 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 21%.

This role's posted range of $85K - $110K sits above 12% of the 17 other DDN roles quoted over the same currency and period.

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What the role asks for

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Job description

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)

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