Systems Engineer

UITS ADVANCED CYBERINFRASTRUCT (UA-RTAC-IUBLA) Department‑Specific Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and implements operations, support, and reporting systems related to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Jetstream2 project.
• Designs, develops and implements operations, support, and reporting systems related to the Indiana University (IU) Research Cloud project.
• May contribute to the development of features for the Exosphere user interface used by Jetstream
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• Systems currently make extensive use of Python, Salt Stack, Ansible, Prometheus, Open Stack, Ceph, Kubernetes, Git Lab CI, and Elm programming language.

• Designs, develops, and implements advanced systems that adhere to university policies and standards; evaluates, monitors, and assesses current systems to design and develop system updates/modifications and/or to resolve issues; provides a senior point of escalation in regard to complex and difficult system performance issues.
• Makes recommendations to improve, as well as provides, bug reporting and identification, test case authoring and refinement, automation scripts, and works closely with other technical teams to resolve highly complex and difficult problems; reviews work and often provides guidance to junior peers.
• Leads in establishing metrics and determining systems configuration(s) to ensure optimum performance and security in accordance with strategy and operational goals; analyzes capacity data and leads in the development of capacity plans.
• Ensures proper documentation of systems infrastructure design decisions, issues/resolutions, as well as leads service disaster recovery planning.
• Collaborates with systems professionals on other teams and across the university to analyze/evaluate new capabilities and emerging technologies that could improve university systems performance.
• Researches and stays abreast of current higher education systems engineering trends; stays up‑to‑date and makes recommendations to improve systems engineering best practices, tools, and approaches.
• May serve as project leader; often provides guidance to junior peers.

Combinations of related education and experience may be considered. Education beyond the minimum required may be substituted for work experience. Work experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted for education.

• Bachelor's degree (preferably in computer science or related field.)

• 5 years of systems engineering or related experience.

• Proficient communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
• Highly thorough and dependable.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
• Possesses a high degree of initiative.
• Ability to influence internal and/or external constituents.

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Bloomington, Indiana

This position is eligible to work a hybrid schedule (mix between remote and in‑person work majority remote), subject to change in the future based on university policy and business needs.

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long‑term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Career Level:

Advanced

FLSA:
Exempt

Job Function:
Information Technology

Job Family:
Sys Admin, Engineer & Program

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