High Performance Computing Data Storage Administrator II

Job overview

The High Performance Computing Data Storage Administrator II role is hybrid in Tuscaloosa, AL; compensation is not specified in the posting as a complete salary range. The listed pay grade shows a minimum of $74,900 and a midpoint of $101,100. The role supports the University of Alabama’s OIT-HPC Center Services department and research computing users. The administrator maintains enterprise and high-performance computing storage systems, ensuring availability, capacity, and reliable data access. The work supports researchers and technical staff through storage provisioning, data lifecycle operations, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.

What you'll do

• Administer HPC and enterprise storage systems
• monitor storage health, capacity, availability, and hardware
• perform maintenance, upgrades, provisioning, and filesystem expansion
• manage distributed and parallel filesystems, allocations, quotas, permissions, and metadata
• perform backups, recovery, archiving, migrations, and lifecycle activities
• monitor utilization and I/O performance
• develop Bash and Python automation
• troubleshoot storage and file access
• support project onboarding and users.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

hpc data storage administrator ii

tuscaloosa al

university of alabama

hybrid

high performance computing

storage administration

linux

bash

python

parallel filesystems

research computing

monday–friday

8:00 am–5:00 pm

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Hybrid work subject to University policy; Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Requires qualifying systems or storage administration experience and a valid U.S. driver’s license. Preferred experience includes Linux, parallel filesystems, SLURM, object storage, and AI/ML research workloads.

About the employer

The University of Alabama is hiring for this role. Industry: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools. Sector: 61.