Job Summary Working independently under the Director of Enterprise IT Operations, this position deploys, designs, enhances, manages, documents, and maintains systems, servers, storage, and services supporting Cal Poly's research and instructional computing. The role supports the on-premises NVIDIA HPC platform (AI Factory), AWS workloads, Kubernetes-based AI/ML services, and related monitoring and automation. It partners with faculty, researchers, students, the Noyce School of Applied Computing, and ITS teams to ensure these platforms remain available, secure, reliable, and optimized for academic and research use. #CalPolyITS
Key Qualifications - Thorough and advanced experience with Linux operating systems, including RHEL, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, or Ubuntu, in production research and HPC environments.
- Advanced knowledge of systems support and management practices, including backup and restore, system maintenance, networking, scripting, security, operating-system deployment, monitoring, disaster recovery, and server and GPU hardware.
- Advanced ability to use configuration-management and infrastructure-as-code tools in a large-scale enterprise DevOps environment, including Ansible, Terraform, AWS Systems Manager, and Git/CI-CD.
- Advanced skill supporting complex cloud, container, and HPC environments, including AWS, Kubernetes, NVIDIA GPU technologies, Slurm, and high-performance storage platforms such as VAST.
- Thorough and advanced knowledge of automation and scripting using technologies such as Ansible playbooks, Bash, and Python.
Education and Experience - Equivalent to a bachelor's degree in a related field and four years of relevant experience. Additional experience which demonstrates acquired and successfully applied knowledge and abilities shown above may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. An advanced degree in a related field may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.
Salary and Benefits Anticipated Hiring Range: $100,404 - $115,332 Per Year
Classification Range: $87,408-$127,332 Per Year
Factors in determining the appropriate compensation for a role include experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The Anticipated Hiring Range referenced in the job posting is the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position. The Classification Range may be broader than what the University anticipates paying for this position, based on internal equity, budget, and collective bargaining agreements (when applicable).
Cal Poly offers a best-in-class benefits program, including health, dental and vision insurance, retirement participation in the Public Employees' Retirement System, and educational benefits for eligible employees. See our benefits website for additional information.
Advertised: Nov 10 2026 Pacific Standard Time
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