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| Research Associate III/Assistant Systems Administrator |
This position is responsible for assisting with web development and system administration within a research center at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of the Senior System Administrator on system administration tasks concentrated in maintaining various system platforms including MacOSX, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, and SGI IRIX as well as maintaining a large Apple XServe cluster, smaller XServe cluster, and a linux cluster. This involves hardware maintenance of those machines and the many different peripherals associated with them including 3 RAID systems, as well as supporting the different system software and other packages used for our scientific research. A knowledge of the various system daemons is essential to maintaining our servers including mail, web, calendar and open directory services in addition to set-up and maintenance of user accounts for project staff and interacting comfortably and successfully with them. An in-depth knowledge and understanding of Apple's MacOSX client and server operating systems is crucial.
Web development is mostly devoted to developing and maintaining the CMMAP reporting system using HTML, PHP, Javascript, and MySQL databases. In addition, web duties include assisting in the maintenance of the main CMMAP website as well as the Apache 2 web server and MySQL server. Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and multi-media processing is needed for those tasks.
Other important duties include providing support to in-house modeling and visualization applications written primarily in IDL and Fortran languages which also requires knowledge of dataset formats including netCDF, HDF and multi-processing implementation including PBS and various flavors of MPI.
Minimum Requirements
- BS or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or closely related field.
- Two years minimum working experience in Apple MacOSX hardware and software administration.
- Two years minimum working experience in Linux administration and SGI IRIX administration.
- At least two years of working experience writing IDL (Interactive Data Language) code including the use of IDLâs Object and Object Graphics tools.
- At least two years of working experience designing and coding webpages, including a strong knowledge of PHP and Java and their use in forms. This knowledge must be outside of the aid of web-authoring programs which are not used in this job.
- At least one year of working experience in managing Apache web servers and MySQL database servers.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in shell script writing.
- Experience in multi-media processing and Flash design.
- Working knowledge of FORTRAN and C as well as GCC, at least one flavor of MPI and some knowledge of PBS (portable batch system) software.
- Experience reading and writing large datasets in various formats including a strong knowledge of NetCDF.
- An excellent working knowledge of the UNIX operating system.
- Systems administration skills on Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, MacOSX and SGI operating systems including the set-up of user accounts, the running and monitoring of system daemons including sendmail, the updating of system and third party software, and the set up of peripherals including external disks, RAID systems and printers.
Application materials should be submitted electronically to Stephanie Rosso at Stephanie.Rosso@colostate.edu. Please include a cover letter detailing previous job experiences and duties that relate to this position, current resume, and contact information of three professional references including telephone and email information.
Colorado State University is committed to providing a safe and productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we conduct background investigations for all final candidates being considered for employment. Background checks may include, but are not limited to, criminal history, national sex offender search and motor vehicle history.
Colorado State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and complies with all Federal and Colorado State laws, regulations, and executive orders regarding affirmative action requirements in all programs. The Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity is located in 101 Student Services Building. In order to assist Colorado State University in meeting its affirmative action responsibilities, ethnic minorities, women and other protected class members are encouraged to apply and so identify themselves.
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