Testbed Systems Administrator or Senior Testbed Systems Administrator- Information Trust Institute

Duties

Responsibilities

Systems and Network Administration

• Update and maintain testbed systems and networking environment
• Install and provision bare metal, virtualized, and containerized infrastructure.
• Monitor and balance network, power, and security of systems in the testbed systems and participate in the selection of appropriate equipment needed to support the testbed infrastructure.
• Leverage, adjust, replace, enhance, and modify testbed systems in real time to support research requirements.
• Assume additional system administrator related duties to further ITI’s mission. Testbed Architecture and Design
• Design, develop and implement testbed capabilities and internal network design to align with current and future infrastructure needs and objectives.
• Engage students, faculty, and staff to optimize support research projects leveraging testbed resources.
• Research 3rd party tools or develop internal tools to enhance automation workflows for Testbed.
• Analyze current testbed use strategies that support enhanced architectures and re-design. Documentation For Testbed Use
• Assist in creating documentation and use training for existing and future ITI testbed environments.
• Evaluate vendor specification sheets, work with vendors and recommend equipment configurations that best align with research project needs.
• Create documentation, review historical trends and metrics for future improvements, and create reports about system status. Other duties as assigned