Lab Administrator
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About the Position
We are seeking a skilled Lab Administrator to manage and maintain our technical research lab environment in Columbia, Maryland.
Location
- City: Columbia
- Country: United States
Employment Type
- Type: Full-time
- Work Location: On-site
Compensation
- Range: $65K - $100K per year
Role Summary
Responsible for the setup, maintenance, security, and day-to-day operation of a technical/research lab environment (servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and lab-issued workstations), ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance with organizational policies.
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, and maintain lab hardware (servers, storage arrays, NICs, switches) and software (OS images, drivers, monitoring tools)
- Manage user access, accounts, and permissions across lab systems
- Monitor system health, performance, and capacity (CPU, memory, storage, network utilization)
- Troubleshoot hardware/software issues and coordinate with vendors for support/RMAs
- Maintain documentation: network diagrams, asset inventories, configuration baselines, SOPs
- Implement and enforce security policies (patching, firewall rules, access controls)
- Manage backups, disaster recovery procedures, and data retention policies
- Support researchers/engineers with environment setup for experiments, benchmarks, or testing (e.g., provisioning compute nodes, storage volumes, network configs)
- Track licensing, warranties, and hardware lifecycle (procurement to decommissioning)
- Coordinate lab scheduling/resource allocation if shared across teams
Requirements
- Strong Linux administration experience (Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS)
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VLANs, bonding/LACP, basic troubleshooting)
- Experience with storage systems (SAN/NAS, parallel filesystems like Lustre/GPFS a plus)
- Scripting ability (Bash, Python) for automation
- Familiarity with virtualization/containerization (KVM, Docker) is a plus
- Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix)
- Understanding of hardware components (CPUs, NUMA architecture, PCIe, NICs/RDMA)
Nice to Have
- Experience with HPC/AI infrastructure (InfiniBand, RDMA, GPU clusters)
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet)
We Offer
- Competitive salary range: $65K - $100K per year
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
- Professional growth and development opportunities
About the Company
At DDN, we are committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions in the storage and data management sector. Join our team and contribute to our mission of innovation and excellence.
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DataDirect Networks (DDN.com) is a world leader in massively-scalable storage platforms and solutions engineered for the Big Data and Cloud era. Our storage, processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high-data growth environments to achieve the highest levels of systems performance, scalability and efficiency.In solving today’s Big Data lifecycle management challenges at scale, DDN enables organizations to maximize the value of their information, everywhere. As the technology behind the world’s leading data-driven organizations, our customers include online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, financial services, media production houses and security and intelligence agencies.
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