Data Movement Engineer

Job Summary:

The Research Cyberinfrastructure group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Information Technology is hiring a Data Movement Engineer. The Data Movement Engineer will administer enterprise-wide applications for data movement, data management, and data sharing across the University's distributed research infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for administering Globus infrastructure that connects research data, storage, and computing resources across the University and enables secure sharing of data between internal and external research collaborations. You will consult with research groups to help them leverage this infrastructure to meet their data transfer and automation needs. You will become an expert at creating and advising researchers on low friction, automated paths for data movement. You will partner with groups in central and distributed IT, research computing centers, and the Libraries to identify best practices for automated data workflows, data-sharing, and data management. Your work will provide key elements of research computing infrastructure that support the University's RISE (Research Innovation and Scholarly Excellence) initiative.

University of Wisconsin-Madison is a leading research university, known for interdisciplinary research that creates knowledge and innovations that benefit society and improve lives around the world.

The Research Cyberinfrastructure unit, within the Division of Information Technology, is a group of IT professionals that provides services and support to researchers for their data, computing, data science, and AI-based work. Our mission is to provide a robust, secure, and evolving infrastructure that enables the work of researchers in all disciplines and aligns with UW-Madison's research mission and strategic priorities. To do this, we partner extensively with groups in central and distributed IT, research computing centers, the Data Science Institute, and the Libraries. We focus on providing high quality, reliable services while continuously exploring and learning new technologies that will become transformative for research.

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is an exciting and dynamic work environment grounded in organizational principles that include family and personal life/work balance; an inclusive, respectful, and supportive work environment; professional development opportunities; innovation; and alignment with the campus's teaching, learning, and research missions.

Responsibilities:

Configures, integrates, administers, and provides advanced and varied consultation, project management, and operational support of highly complex applications or services with a large number of users. Anticipates issues and devises resolution methodology to support the business operations of the institution.

• 10% Creates and updates access permissions and maintains user accounts to maintain application security through user profile management
• 10% Monitors and maintains performance metrics for application features and recommends and takes corrective/preventive actions
• 10% Troubleshoots hardware, software, and system problems and resolves issues and questions by working with vendors
• 10% Participates in the evaluation of vendor software releases and impact
• 10% Coordinates and monitors updates and the installation of upgrades and patches
• 10% Recommends application enhancements or changes that may involve custom design, integrations, and third-party products
• 10% Participates in the design, development, and implementation of test and production objects. Defines user requirements and performs configuration, change management, and testing activities
• 10% Develops and maintains documentation related to the system. Communicates system enhancement or changes as needed
• 10% Plans and directs staff implementation of small to medium technical projects related to system as needed
• 10% Regularly communicates with internal leadership to assess efficacy of system and discuss improvements and new features

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Preferred
Bachelor's Degree

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications
-Professional experience supporting and administering Linux web applications with distributed administration
-Professional experience scripting and automating workflows using command line and REST APIs for software integrations
-Experience providing IT solutions to meet the needs of users with a wide range of requirements as part of a cross-functional technical team delivering services to varied audiences
-Professional experience providing and maintaining processes for end-to-end IT service delivery and operational resilience
-Experience supporting applications using enterprise Identity Management systems such as Globus/CILogon, SAML/Shibboleth/OIDC, Active Directory/LDAP, EntraID

Preferred Qualifications
-Proficiency scripting in Python
-Experience supporting applications for research computing workflows, data storage and transfer, such as Globus
-Knowledge of the day-to-day processes involved in research and discovery, including research workflows, data lifecycles, and grant funding cycles and requirements
-Familiarity with protocols used to access network attached storage systems, such as SMB, NFS, and Amazon S3
-Familiarity with security protocols and regulatory compliance areas that impact research (i.e., NSPM-33, HIPAA, FISMA, Controlled Unclassified Information)

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

This position is eligible for any of the following: 100% remote work; partial remote work; or fully on-site. Remote work requires an approved remote work agreement (RWA) agreement, which is reviewed and approved annually. An RWA requires successful candidates to possess their own high-speed internet and phone to perform the work on a university provided computer. Per University policy, transportation between home and assigned work location is not payable/reimbursable and will be at the expense of the employee.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Salary:

Minimum $82,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Starting salary will be based on experience and qualifications. Well qualified applicants can anticipate to earn between $82,000 - $91,000, with final salary based on experience and qualifications.

Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits.

Additional Information:

Please note that successful applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship, on or before the effective date of appointment. University sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is part of the Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Initiative. Through accelerated and strategic faculty hiring, research infrastructure enhancement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and increased student and educational opportunities, RISE addresses complex societal challenges of importance to the state, nation and world. Building on UW-Madison's strengths, RISE expands the University's successful track record of connecting with communities and industry on collaborative solutions.

Over the next three academic years, UW-Madison will substantially increase current research computing personnel and hardware infrastructure. Candidates hired through RISE will join a community of scholars working across disciplines, schools and colleges on research, teaching and outreach endeavors. The RISE community, and extended campus community, will engage regularly in venues such as seminar series and colloquia to share ongoing projects and identify opportunities to work together. The University will support the community, facilitating access to research infrastructure, and funding to support broad and rich collaboration.

Further information regarding RISE can be found at: https://rise.wisc.edu/

How to Apply:

Click on the "Apply Online" button to start the application process.

You will be prompted to upload the following documents:
Resume
Letter of Qualifications

Applicants should attach a letter of qualifications and resume detailing their training and experience relating to the required and preferred qualifications referenced above. The application reviewers will be relying on written application materials to determine which qualified applicants will advance in the recruitment process.

Contact:

Charissa Weber
charissa.weber@wisc.edu
608-262-0596
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

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Official Title:

Application Administrator II(IT109)

Department(s):

A06-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/CTO OFFICE

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

313147-AS

 

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