[olug] Job opportunity in the Chicago Area via UNL

[clundst at unlserve.unl.edu]

Hey all,

An interesting opportunity for an energetic, experienced linux admin  
who wants to work with a variety of universities.

The University of Nebraska is hiring a 'Tier 3' admin assistant to  
help configure and setup CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) analysis sites  
all over the country.  Although the position is through UNL, it's  
based at Fermi National Lab in Batavia, travel required.  Here's the  
official scoop:

"The UNL Research Computing Facility, in collaboration with US CMS, is  
offering a 3 year term position. Individual will be resident at  
Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, and there is an expectation of required  
travel within the US to visit Tier-3 sites and attend appropriate US  
CMS meetings at the level of up to six times a year. Engaged,  
experienced individual will provide coordinated support and  
contributions to the infrastructure delivering data, calibrations,  
providing data and job management, and performing computations over  
this worldwide facility for the university "Tier-3" groups who have  
not previously had direct funding from the project. This individual  
will be part of the existing US CMS grid services team - working with  
the university based physicists, CMS software and computing, the OSG,  
and the European partners.

Responsibilities include coordinating support for the CMS application  
infrastructure (Phedex, CRAB, DBS) for the Tier-3 centers, deployment,  
debugging and use of the OSG software stack and Virtual Data toolkit,  
contributing to the troubleshooting of end-to-end system problems  
involving the Tier-3 universities, and participating in the  
interoperability development and testing between the US and European  
infrastructure. To qualify for an interview an individual must have a  
bachelor?s degree in computer science, engineering, or a physical  
science plus two years relevant experience required; equivalency  
considered. Experience with scientific applications over distributed  
systems; deployment and troubleshooting of distributed scientific  
production facilities; excellent communication skills and excellent  
analytic and technical documentation ability are essential. In  
addition, we prefer that candidates have a master's degree in computer  
science, engineering, or a physical science. Knowledge of grid  
computing protocols, in particular those used on the Open Science Grid  
is helpful. Knowledge of dCache and other OSG software is desired.  
Knowledge of US CMS software, including but not limited to CRAB job  
submission, preferred and knowledge of Condor and/or Globus  
technologies are also helpful.

Please view Requisition #080546 on our website at  
http://employment.unl.edu for more details and to apply for this  
position. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is committed to a  
pluralistic campus community through affirmative action, equal  
opportunity, work-life balance, and dual careers. "


As an admin at a "Tier 2" I can answer questions about some of the  
responsibilities.

For information about CMS and the "Tiered" computing model, you can  
poke around:
http://www.uscms.org/public_2/about/index.shtml

Carl Lundstedt
UNL