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Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world's leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world's deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. These values are grounded in and expressed through the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an anti-racist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, anti-racism and inclusion.

The System Engineer I/II is responsible for supporting a scientific community of Data Scientists, Statisticians, Computational Biologists, and Scientific Programmers with complex and frequently changing IT requirements. You will be responsible for tier 1-2 support for HPC systems running Ubuntu Linux. These systems currently consist of application servers hosting research projects, a 7000 core on-premises cluster, and a growing cloud compute. Your duties will encompass configuration and day-to-day support of hardware, operating systems, and applications for HPC/Linux infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud. Job responsibilities also include monitoring and improving server, storage, and network performance. You will join a team of senior engineers and interact with stakeholders from the scientific community and other IT groups at Fred Hutch to identify needs, prioritize and dispatch tickets, as well as develop new projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide customer support for scientific software and scientific computing environment as required
• Lead efforts to improve processes by increasing automation using appropriate tools
• Maintain recipes in Ansible and Chef configuration management system for local and cloud computing solutions
• Proactively identify issues and troubleshoot cloud solutions for Scientific Computing services
• Organize and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Maintain end-user documentation including how-to documents and contribute to sciwiki.fredhutch.org
• Use and administer SCM tools
• Conduct training on a variety of topics of expertise for the Scientific Computing team and Fred Hutch scientific community
• Build relationships with other IT professionals at Fred Hutch and educate them about Scientific Computing
• May require working evenings and weekends, sometimes with little advanced notice
• Participate in system monitoring and testing
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

SYSTEMS ENGINEER I MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• One year of system administrator experience in an enterprise with increasing responsibilities
• Daily operational skills and basic scripting using bash or python
• Ability and demonstrated judgement work independently, multitasking, and prioritizing workload
• Demonstrated experience working in a highly collaborative environment
• Demonstrated experience in customer service

SYSTEMS ENGINEER II MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 3 years managing Linux systems in a networked environment with increasing responsibilities
• Experience in at least one scripting language
• Configuration management experience (chef, puppet, ansible, cfengine, etc.)
• Ability to use and provide support for git, github, and gitlab
• Proven track record researching, implementing and socializing technical solutions
• Ability to work independently, multitask, and prioritize workload

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in driving operational excellence and best practices
• Experience with cluster or workload managers (Moab, Slurm, Torque, SGE)
• Web stack experience (apache, nginx, tomcat, etc.)
• Python and Bash for scripting and tooling
• Linux performance troubleshooting
• Experience using and deploying solutions with Docker
• Experience with Cloud Computing technologies (AWS, Google, Azure)
• Presentation, communication, and public speaking skills
• Analytical, data management, and reporting skills
• Expertise and knowledge of gathering and documenting analytic/reporting requirements
• Experience in a research or educational setting
• Experience with database technologies, particularly Postgres
• Programming, design and system analysis skills
• Pursue continued professional and technical education and training

A statement describing your commitment and contributions toward greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in your career or that will be made through your work at Fred Hutch is requested of all finalists.

Systems Engineer I: The annual base salary range for this position is from $84,448.00 to $126,651.20, and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.

Systems Engineer II: The annual base salary range for this position is from $93,101.00 to $139,630.00, and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.

This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks), and partially paid sabbatical leave (up to 6 months).

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