Information Technologist II

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Job no:
Work type: Support Staff
Pay Grade: 13
Major Administrative Unit / College: Research And Innovation
Department: Institute For Cyber Enabled Research 10059322
Sub Area: AP- Professionals
Salary: 75000.00 - 90000.00 Salary Commensurate
Location: East Lansing
Categories: Information Technology, Administrative Professionals- AP, Full Time (90-100%), Union

Position Summary

ICERs HPC systems consist of over 1000 nodes, 50,000 cores, 400 GPUs, and 9 PB of storage and supports researchers in many different scientific domains across the campus and the state.

A successful applicant to this position will, as the key part of their duties, do the following:

• Participate in the design, development, operation, and support of Linux-based High Performance Computing systems on campus.

• Design and support modern development and operations processes and methodologies for researchers and internal ICER needs and work with other units on campus to create innovative solutions for University researchers.

• Manage complex projects that serve the entire university community as well as MSUs external partners, consult with users to ensure the best use of the University's computational resources.

• Participate in regional and national cyber infrastructure communities, and other duties as assigned.

This position includes an emergency on-call support rotation (compensated) with the rest of the systems team. Weekly meetings at the East Lansing campus and intermittent data center work on-site is required.

For consideration under this posting, a candidate must be a U.S. citizen.

Minimum Requirements

Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or related information technology field, with coursework in an information technology specialization related to the area of employment; three to five years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in an information technology area related to the duties to be performed such as:

• Linux operating systems - Ubuntu, RHEL, or derivatives

• Windows operating systems - automated provisioning, configuration, and management

• HPCC core - Slurm, MPI, batch processing,

• Deployment methods - puppet, ansible, Chocolatey, xCAT, Lenovo Confluent

• Scripting experience - bash, Python, Perl, Go

• Virtualization - ESXi, kvm, XCP-NG,

• or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Desired Qualifications

In addition to the core skills described above, expertise with some subset of the following technologies are desirable:

• Linux services (NFS, OpenSSH, Apache, nginx)

• Networking technologies (Ethernet and Infiniband) and hardware (Mellanox and Juniper),

• Log aggregation and monitoring (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana [ELK])

• Configuration management and automation (tools like Lenovo Confluent, xCAT, Puppet, Ansible, kickstart, Chocolatey, SNMP, and IPMI)

• Batch job queueing and scheduling systems (Slurm),

• Version control (git) and Continuous Integration (CI) or Continuous Deployment (CD)

• NIST 800-171 or 800-53, FERPA, ITAR export controls, or equivalent.

• Manage Security Control Plans

• Desire for continuous learning and self-improvement

Required Application Materials

Resume, cover letter and three professional references.

Special Instructions

This is a hybrid role. Weekly in-person meetings in East Lansing office required. Intermittent data center work at the East Lansing data center required. On-call rotation with the possible need to perform on-site data center repairs during non-business hours with short turnaround times.

Work Hours

STANDARD 8-5

Website

HTTPS://ICER.MSU.EDU/

Bidding eligibility ends August 18, 2026, 11:55 PM

Advertised: Aug 12, 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: Aug 25, 2026 Eastern Daylight Time