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Overview

Job title: Systems Administrator for Big Data Science Systems - 136358 at UC San Diego Health

Location: La Jolla, CA. Appointment: Career, 100%. Work schedule: Days, 8 hrs/day, Monday-Friday. Openings: 1. Extension deadline: Wed 9/24/2025. Salary: $130,000 - $190,000 per year (Pay scale may vary).

UC San Diego Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values equity, diversity, and inclusion. See the Special Selection, layoff, and vaccination policy notes below for more details.

Description

UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS) is growing in the diverse areas of professional educational programs, cutting-edge research, and pharmacy services. The school is committed to offering a dynamic learning environment and growing opportunities to its talented and dedicated employees.

The role applies advanced computational, computer science, data science, and software research and development principles to perform complex distributed computing architectural design, administration, and maintenance. It involves evaluating factors impacting medium to large projects, designing and optimizing storage systems for repositories serving multiple petabytes of data, and supporting HPC and data science projects. It also includes evaluating new hardware/software technologies, resolving complex research and technology issues, managing large-scale storage and backup solutions, and ensuring HIPAA-compliant data handling where required. The position designs and manages networking infrastructure to connect servers, storage, compute systems, and virtual machines, and develops/configures management infrastructure and documentation for CCMS systems. It may involve leading a team and giving technical presentations at meetings, conferences, and committees. It may represent the organization in national/international settings and assists in selecting new technologies for HPC, data science, and CI projects.

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Nine years of related experience, or a Bachelor's degree in a related area plus five years of related experience/training.
• Advanced knowledge of HPC / data science / CI.
• Highly advanced skills in one or more of: HPC hardware and software performance analysis, deployment of HPC/data science/CI applications and tools at large scale.
• Experience designing/operating petabyte-scale data redundancy and backup systems to ensure data protection and service availability.
• Experience designing/maintaining storage and core service infrastructure for large-scale data systems and HPC algorithms on tens of thousands of datasets.
• Experience in a complex computing/data/CI environment with tools such as DNS, DHCP, NFS, SSH, Puppet/Ansible, security logging, file systems (e.g., ZFS and TrueNAS), etc.
• Knowledge of Linux and macOS operating systems, database conventions/tools, and system utilities.
• Ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences at various levels; proven leadership and teamwork.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects; demonstrated leadership and project management skills.
• Experience prioritizing needs and developing solutions for complex technical/research demands.
• Advanced experience in optimizing and benchmarking HPC performance and related power modeling.
• Experience training others to use computing clusters and applications.
• Strong knowledge of tools/technologies including: Puppet/Ansible, Proxmox, Torque, Slurm, Apache, Tomcat, vsftpd, MySQL, Java, Python, GitHub, C/C++, Perl, SQL, Postgres, and shell programming.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to initiate research proposals and obtain funding.
• Experience in complex computational/large-scale storage environments with domain science applications, including biological mass spectrometry (proteomics, metabolomics, etc.).

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

• Employment is subject to a criminal background check.

Pay Transparency and Additional Information

Pay transparency: Annual Full Pay Range: $119,400 - $230,800 (prorated if appointment is less than 100%). Hourly equivalent: $57.18 - $110.54.

Operations may require vaccination compliance per UC policies and applicable directives. Life-support certifications (BLS, NRP, ACLS, etc.) must include hands-on practice and in-person assessment where applicable.

About UC San Diego Health and Equity

UC San Diego Health Sciences includes the School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and other health-related divisions. We are committed to a diverse, inclusive environment and encourage applicants who can contribute to this mission.

Applications/resumes are accepted for current openings only. Full consideration requires submission before the initial closing date. If a job has an extended deadline, applications will be considered during extension; however, a job may be filled before the extended date.

UC San Diego is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected status. For the Anti-Discrimination policy, see UC policy. UC San Diego is smoke/tobacco free and maintains a drug-free environment.

Job Function

• Information Technology

Industry

• Hospitals and Health Care

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