Job Summary:
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) is embarking on an exciting mission of establishing state of the art computational, data and informatics infrastructure for supporting cutting edge biomedical research and innovation to care.

We are seeking a Research Storage Engineer to join the SMPH Office of Informatics and Information Technology and help us support researchers with an ever growing need for storage. The position will be working with other Engineers within SMPH and UW-Madison to provide tools and processes to efficiently manage the data lifecycle. The Engineering team collaborates using an Agile/Scrum workflow and prioritizes automation, version control (Git), continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), containers (e.g., Docker, Singularity), and innovative ideas brought by its members. This role also manages the Ceph storage cluster used to support on-premise high-performance computing cluster workloads run with Slurm.

Responsibilities:
Creates and maintains the institution's technical infrastructure by performing moderately complex systems engineering work for non-routine and varied problems to ensure the long term requirements of systems operations and administration are met under general supervision.
30% Identifies, troubleshoots, researches, and resolves routine issues on varied systems, platforms, networks, and applications to ensure system security, confidentiality compatibility, and functionality according to policies, procedures, and regulations
35% Designs, installs, configures tests, and maintains routine and varied automation, hardware, and associated equipment according to customer specifications to meet unit objectives
20% Assists with the planning and coordinating of system logistics, workflows, upgrades, and system security and affiliated procedures
10% Documents and disseminates deployed systems, system upgrades, or changes to the appropriate entities according to established policies and procedures
5% Installs firewalls, host and client access mechanisms, permissions, and user accounts
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Education:
Preferred
Associate's Degree

Qualifications:
Required:
- Strong experience in Linux system administration, with a focus on command line operations
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team
- 3+ years of experience in a similar role

Preferred:
- Proficiency with distributed file systems (e.g., Ceph, HDFS, GlusterFS)
- Knowledge of network-attached storage system protocols (e.g., NFS, SMB, Amazon S3)
- Experience with scripting and automation tools (e.g., Bash, Python, Ansible)
- Familiarity with public cloud storage solutions (e.g., Azure Storage Accounts, AWS S3)
- Understanding of data security practices, including HIPAA security or NIST 800-53 technical controls
- Experience using REST APIs for software integration
- Experience building, installing, and troubleshooting software installations from source in a Linux environment
- Experience with Globus
- Background in a research environment