The mission of the Scientific Data & Computing Center (SDCC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is to provide computational support for BNL scientific programs. BNL is the US extreme scientific scale Data Laboratory. The Scientific Data & Computing Center provides data services for the many scientific user facilities on the BNL site, such as the nuclear physics Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the brightest synchrotron in the world at National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II), the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, or remote like the Atlas experiment at CERN (Switzerland), the Belle II experiment in Japan, and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program. Due to BNL’s fast-growing data science research programs, the SDCC is a lively organization developing solutions and providing the necessary computing infrastructure to support BNL’s science mission.
The SDCC has an opening for a Senior Technology Analyst / Technology Engineer to take a supporting role in scientific computing for the RHIC and ATLAS programs. Within a team that manages thousands of compute and storage servers, the selected candidate will contribute to supporting these systems (deployment, monitoring, resource scheduling, etc.) and in defining the facility evolution to support massive data processing and computing needs. This position has a high level of interaction with an international and multicultural scientific community.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the deployment and operations of PB scale high-availability and I/O intensive archive storage systems in support of the RHIC experiments and USATLAS.
- Operate high-availability and I/O intensive computing workflows in support of the RHIC experiments and USATLAS.
- Deploy and operate data-driven monitoring tools to analyze and optimize data storage interactions and computing activities.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in physics, computer science, or a related discipline or equivalent directly related experience on the basis of 2:1 (exp:edu).
- A minimum of 1 year of full-time relevant experience.
- Prior experience with Linux system administration.
- Knowledge of server hardware, storage systems, and their integration with network infrastructure.
- Ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment with time-sensitive deadlines.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Experience with data archive systems, data backups.
- Experience with software scripting tools (Python script, Bash, php, etc).
- Understanding of network protocols, security principles and practices.
- Experience with data analytics and system performance monitoring tools.
- Experience with software and services such as:
- Configuration management and version control (Puppet, Ansible, etc) software.
- Deploying and operating secure, Internet-facing services.
Environmental, Health & Safety Requirements:
- Ability and willingness to perform moderate physically demanding work occasionally (replacing server components, moving servers within the data center, connecting network cabling among servers, inventory and organizing replacement hardware parts, etc).
OTHER INFORMATION: (add if applicable)
- Occasional travel (foreign and domestic) may be required.
- Appointment level will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
