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