Supercomputer System Administrator at Center for Climate Physics, IBS

The Institute of Basic Science (IBS) is installing a new supercomputing system (Cray XC50, 1.44 PFlops) at the headquarter in Daejeon to support climate research of the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP). ICCP is now hiring an entry-level system administrator. The expected start date will be November 1st, 2018 and the workplace will be the IBS headquarter in Daejeon. The position is a full-time position with benefits and competitive salary negotiable. Contracts will be issued initially for 1 years, with possibility for renewal, depending on performance.

Job Descriptions

• - Support the IBS/ICCP supercomputing center and facilities including compute nodes, servers, networking systems, storage systems, and tape archive.
• - Maintain hardware with a system administrator dispatched by Cray Inc.
• - Install, configure, and maintain the system and software for operating system and scientific applications.
• - Manage access control, security and authentication systems, application software stack with modules, queueing systems and resource allocation.
• - Communicate with ICCP researchers, IBS staffs, and Cray engineers.
• - Support climate model operations and optimization for diverse earth system models.
• - Support network connections via KREONET and data transfers between the IBS headquarter in Daejeon and the ICCP in Busan.

Minimum Qualifications

• - Strong written and verbal communication skills for both Korean and English
• - BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Informatics or related field
• - At least 12 months of experience with Linux system administration
• - Shell scripting and one or more programming languages like Perl, Python, C++, etc.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• - Parallel programming with MPI and OpenMP
• - Configuration and operation of job scheduling systems such as PBS, LSF, and SLURM
• - Parallel file system using Lustre
• - Debugging and optimization skills for C, C++, or Fortran Parallel debugging and optimization skills are additionally preferred.

Closing

• - 15th October 2018, or until position is filled.

How to apply

• - Please send a resume and cover letter and at least one reference to hahadaye@pusan.ac.kr