Systems Administrator
McGill University
Systems Administrator
McGill University
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Position Summary:
McGill University is seeking a Systems Administrator, Cloud (OpenStack), to operate, maintain and evolve its research cloud platform within the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) environment.
Reporting to the Associate Director, Operations, the incumbent will be one of three systems administrators on the cloud team, which is part of Calcul Québec's operations team of 14 systems administrators distributed across McGill, Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université de Sherbrooke and ÉTS.
Calcul Québec is a consortium of Québec universities, of which McGill is a founding member, and a regional partner of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. It provides advanced research computing resources and expertise to research groups across Québec. This role is dedicated to the OpenStack research cloud, which operates alongside HPC clusters, multi-petabyte Lustre parallel storage, and multi-petabyte tape storage for backup and archiving.
Why join us
Primary Responsibilities:
Operations and support
Platform evolution
Automation, monitoring and documentation
Collaboration
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Knowledge of English: McGill University is an English-language university where day to day duties may require English communication both verbally and in writing. The level of English required for this position has been assessed at a level #3 (qualifier) on a scale of 0-4.
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MPEX-IST2F - IT Infrastructure & Operations - Professional 2Hours per Week:
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