S08524P

Systems Administrator

VPR-Center Trop Emerg Glob Dis

PLEASE NOTE: On December 7, 2021, the federal District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction against enforcing the vaccine requirement for
Federal Contractors pending further review. As a result, the requirements of the Executive Order and associated guidance, including the vaccination requirement for covered contractor employees, are currently not in effect.

The University of Georgia (UGA), a land-grant and sea-grant university with statewide commitments and responsibilities, is the state’s oldest, most comprehensive, and most diversified institution of higher education (https://www.uga.edu/). UGA is currently ranked among the top 15 public universities in U.S. News & World Report. The University’s main campus is located in Athens, approximately 65 miles northeast of Atlanta, with extended campuses in Atlanta, Griffin, Gwinnett, and Tifton. UGA was founded in 1785 by the Georgia General Assembly as the first state-chartered University in the country. UGA employs approximately 1,800 full-time instructional faculty and more than 7,700 full-time staff. The University’s enrollment exceeds 39,000 students including over 30,000 undergraduates and over 9,000 graduate and professional students. Academic programs reside in 18 schools and colleges, as well as a medical partnership with Augusta University housed on the UGA Health Sciences Campus in Athens.

The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) at the University of Georgia is one of the largest international centers of research focused on diseases of poverty. Researchers and students work together on some of the most important causes of human suffering around the world, including malaria, schistosomiasis, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, and filariasis.

CTEGD.UGA.EDU

External

TRS or ORP

Employee

Benefits Eligible

Full Time

M-F 8:00-5:00

Commensurate with Experience

05/18/2022

Yes

06/01/2022

This position may be subject to telecommuting but in-person presence is required.

Athens Area

The University of Georgia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, genetic information, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or protected veteran status. Persons needing accommodations or assistance with the accessibility of materials related to this search are encouraged to contact Central HR (hrweb@uga.edu).

PLEASE NOTE: On December 7, 2021, the federal District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction against enforcing the vaccine requirement for
Federal Contractors pending further review. As a result, the requirements of the Executive Order and associated guidance, including the vaccination requirement for covered contractor employees, are currently not in effect.

The University of Georgia is a Federal Contractor as defined by Presidential Executive Order 14042 and subject to the requirement that Federal Contractors must ensure that all covered employees, including those working remotely, are fully vaccinated by January 4, 2022. You may be required to show proof of your fully vaccinated status at the time of your start date, or have received a medical or religious exemption from the fully vaccinated requirement at the time of your start date. For more information regarding the Federal Contractor fully vaccinated employment requirement please visit https://coronavirus.uga.edu/executive-order/ or call (706) 542-2222.

IT (Information Technology) Professional

Exempt

1.00

Requires at least a baccalaureate degree in the field. Please contact your Human Resources office for an evaluation of education/experience in lieu of the required minimum qualifications.

The VEuPathDB.org Bioinformatics Resource Center is a large, multi-institutional project which is responsible for developing and providing scientific data-mining web sites used by tens of thousands of researchers to study infectious disease and public health impact worldwide.As a Systems Administrator, you will join a dynamic and growing team responsible for developing and providing scientific data-mining web sites used by tens of thousands of researchers to study infectious disease and public health impact worldwide. This position focuses on the maintenance, monitoring, and administration of the compute resources used by the project. This includes OS level software updates, configuration management and routine backups. Emphasis is placed on visibility, repeatability, and infrastructure as code practices.

Needed:- Solid Unix/Linux experience, and scripting knowledge (bash, python, perl, etc.)- Understanding of networking and firewall management and experience with server hardware and troubleshooting.- Familiarity with automation and configuration management tools (Puppet, ansible, chef, etc.)- Experience with monitoring, metric gathering and visualization tools (nagios, graphite, grafana, collectd, etc.)- Familiarity with containerization technologies (docker, docker-compose, podman, apptainer, etc.)Desired:- While this is not a DBA position, experience with Oracle would be a plus;- General knowledge of relational databases and SQL;- Experience with DNS and LDAP- Experience with Jenkins and/or groovy

This position will involve sitting/standing at a computer for the majority of the workday, and frequent Zoom meeting attendance is needed. Some travel is needed.

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Be advised a credit check will be required for all positions with financial responsibilities. For additional information about the credit check criteria, visit the UGA Credit Background Check website.

Provide Linux, MS Windows and Apple OS X system administration, and desktop, server and SAN hardware administration as necessary for the project. This includes: assist project staff at UGA with minor software and hardware issues (for office and laboratory desktop systems); for server-class machines used by the project at both UGA and Penn, provide support for ongoing maintenance of system health, including inspecting state with server logs and Nagios monitoring software. For these responsibilities the employee should use working knowledge of available reference materials (books, online resources) to complete tasks. Policy decisions should be based on industry best practices and best fit for project needs. Coordination with systems administrators in the data centers and UGA and Penn is expected.

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Assist developing, debugging and maintaining system automation infrastructure using industry standard tools and custom software. This includes: using industry standard tools such as RedHat Kickstart, Puppet, Ansible, Vagrant, Git and Subversion, assist developing the necessary processes to automate the installation and configuration of operating system infrastructure per the project’s needs; for tools that are novel to the group, independently develop some infrastructure components from scratch, coordinating with senior project members when developing policies to intersect with existing ones.

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Help maintain and improve documentation of system infrastructure on group wiki and other knowledge bases. This includes: using the group’s PhpWiki, Confluence, and Google Apps, help maintain and improve documentation of system infrastructure.; document work sufficiently for project peers to understand; correct (or suggest corrections to) documentation from other group members.

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Monitor and test correct operation of backup systems, as well as review system log reports. This includes: using emailed log reports, verify that backup systems are operating correctly and on schedule; verify backups by restoring data quarterly; using emailed log reports, verify that systems are operating as expected; follow up on any issues raised in logs, including unauthorized access, hardware failures, and unexpected package installations.

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Manage account provisioning, access, and removal for project members. This includes: using Puppet and manual methods, handle provisioning of all appropriate accounts for new project members, including unix accounts and appropriate access to internal systems (ldap, git, etc.); ensure that the appropriate access level is maintained for all systems, and handle adjusting access as appropriate; when project members leave, ensure access to all systems are removed.

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Other duties as assigned.

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For questions concerning this position or recruitment progression, please refer to the Recruitment Contact listed below.

Rachel Ankirskiy

jckadmin@uga.edu