Assistant Director, CAC Systems and Operations

Assistant Director, CAC Systems and Operations

Info Tech Assoc Director, Band H

Center for Advanced Computing

Join Our Journey

Cornell Research & Innovation creates an environment that unifies and advances Cornell's scholarship, research, and discovery through state-of-the-art facilities, domain expertise, and partnership to enable innovation and impact. We leverage external funding and partnerships, enable interdisciplinary research, and ensure regulatory compliance. We collaborate to successfully translate and commercialize research through companies large and small, including startups launched by our entrepreneurial faculty, staff, and students. Our commitment to inclusive excellence makes this environment possible.

The Center for Advanced Computing provides computational resources and expertise to Cornell faculty in order to support computational sciences at a high level of functionality. CAC provides HPC clusters and a research cloud as well as storage capabilities to support research applications across the university in a wide range of fields of research. CAC assists Cornell faculty in systems architecture, application workflows, and storage solutions that meet the computational needs of funded projects and participates in leading cyberinfrastructure research projects and partnering with other research computing and data teams in the national cyberinfrastructure community.

We are looking for an Assistant Director to join this team.

Your Mission

As a people leader you will foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by being trustworthy; respecting all individuals; being flexible; supporting work/life integration as well as healthy boundaries; inviting new ideas, alternatives, and perspectives; speaking up and taking action if others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and recognizing the contributions of others.

Major responsibilities of this position may include:

• Develop and implement strategic plans for the effective use, delivery, and security of high-performance computing (HPC) systems to support Cornell faculty and student researchers.
• Oversee the investigation, testing, prototyping, deployment, and support of advanced cyberinfrastructure technologies (e.g. cloud infrastructures, converged hardware models, software defined storage, network architectures).
• Provide high-level technical expertise, establish priorities, technical leadership, and staff supervision for systems integration, security, networking, backups, storage, and data center projects.
• Responsible for the hiring, professional development, and performance management of the center's systems staff.
• Communicate effectively to faculty and student researchers and project leads.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with Weill Cornell Medicine ITS staff in support of Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.
• Manage federal agency awards and Corporate Program projects. Participate in writing grants. Participate on HPC conference program planning committees.
• Actively participate in university-level advisory boards, such as the IT Security Council, RITMG, and others as assigned that may influence operations, networking, and security. Ensure that directors and senior management within the unit are advised regarding new or updated IT policy guidelines and requirements. Work with senior leadership to incorporate these policies into unit plans and processes.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with hardware vendors. Participate in vendor's user organizations like DellXL, the Dell EMC HPC Community, the DDN User's Group, the Intel
• Developer's Group, and CASC to maintain a watch on the heartbeat of the HPC community.

What We Need
Send us a cover letter and resume outlining your interest in this position and explaining how your experience and qualifications match the position requirements. We will review applications as received. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

When evaluating your candidacy, we will look for evidence of the following:

• Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent combination and experience in a complex high-performance computing (HPC) environment.
• 7 - 10 years' experience managing and supporting Information Technologies in a multi-platform, high-performance computing environment, with responsibility for security of systems, networks and facilities, including data integrity and systems support, as well as responsibility for staff, budget, and planning.
• Highly developed leadership and supervisory skills including facilitation, team-building, conflict and change management, and negotiation skills required. Excellent customer service, interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral) required.
• Demonstrated expertise with HPC architectures, systems integration, project management, networking, storage systems, and systems administration software and tools.
• Demonstrated skill in understanding of cultural differences.
• Proven experience connecting diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing practices to business goals.

It would be a plus, but not required, if you had any of the following:

• Master's degree in a computer-related field.
• Scientific software/applications experience.

Why Choose Us

Rewarding Benefits: Competitive compensation, generous time-off, and comprehensive benefits - because we believe in taking care of our team. Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives.

Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, access to wellness programs, and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: https://hr.cornell.edu/benefits-pay.

Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program. Follow this link to learn more about the Total Rewards of Working at Cornell: https://hr.cornell.edu/jobs/your-total-rewards.

Inclusive Culture: We are committed to creating a culture where every individual feels they belong, and we value psychological well-being, respect, and the contributions of all team members. Our leaders play a vital role in fostering the conditions where each person can thrive.

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