Lab Systems Administrator

Location: Columbia Office; On-site

Company

hirify.global supports a technical and research lab environment with servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and lab workstations.

What you will do

• Install, configure, and maintain lab servers, storage arrays, network interfaces, switches, operating system images, drivers, and monitoring tools.
• Manage user accounts, permissions, system health, performance, capacity, backups, disaster recovery, and data retention.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues and coordinate vendor support and RMAs.
• Support researchers and engineers by provisioning compute nodes, storage volumes, and network configurations for experiments, benchmarks, and testing.
• Maintain network diagrams, asset inventories, configuration baselines, and standard operating procedures.
• Manage security controls, licensing, warranties, hardware lifecycle, and shared lab resource allocation.

Requirements

• Strong Linux administration experience with Ubuntu, RHEL, or CentOS.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, bonding/LACP, and basic network troubleshooting.
• Experience with SAN/NAS storage systems; parallel filesystems such as Lustre or GPFS are advantageous.
• Scripting ability in Bash and Python for automation.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Nagios, or Zabbix.
• Understanding of CPUs, NUMA architecture, PCIe, NICs, and RDMA, plus strong documentation and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with virtualization or containerization using KVM or Docker.
• Experience with HPC or AI infrastructure, including InfiniBand, RDMA, or GPU clusters.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet.