[Jobposts] Systems Administrator/Sr - University of Pennsylvania

[Kristofor A Varhus]

To apply, please see the official job posting at:
https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/10305

Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is seeking a highly
motivated and passionate systems administrator to take primary
responsibility for maintenance and troubleshooting of our Linux systems.
We have hundreds of Linux machines – desktops, physical and virtual
servers, HPC clusters – all under central management by our team. You’ll
be responsible for keeping these systems up-to-date and secure, and
you’ll work with the rest of our team to build and maintain
mission-critical systems. The work you’ll be doing will be instrumental
in making possible cutting-edge research in fields like Computer
Science, Materials Science, and Mechanical Engineering.

Qualifications: A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related
field and at least 1 year (senior: at least 3 years) of experience or
equivalent combination of education and experience is required. You’ll
need strong interpersonal and written communication skills: you’ll be
interacting daily with very tech-savvy faculty and students. You’ll also
need a strong background with Linux (especially Linux administration)
and experience programming with high-level scripting languages. If you
have experience with configuration management (Ansible) and revision
control (git), that would be a plus.  Applicants must have US right-to-
work.

Kristofor Varhus
IT Technical Director
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania

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in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and
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The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes
excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their
families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional
development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth
of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.