Overview:
The Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE) is a research institute working in conjunction with the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC). NCIRE has some of the country’s most renowned MD and PhD scientists working in partnership with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the SFVAMC to integrate research interests with the needs of veterans. Medical research is conducted in such diverse areas as aging, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer. Since its inception in 1988, NCIRE continues to grow its research base and currently ranks 17th in funding from NIH for Independent Research Institutes, and has in addition received funding through the DOD and NASA, as well as industry-sponsored projects.
The Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND) performs clinical research using magnetic resonance imaging data and neuropsychological data from a variety of patients from a large number of internal and collaborative research projects.
The primary responsibility of the Computing Resource Manager (III) will be to lead and direct use of IT resources in support of the CIND’s computational goals. This includes continuing the architecture for computational needs as well as the design, implementation and management of the database, data storage and processing infrastructure for use by medical imagers, researchers and other CIND staff, the design, specification and supervision of implementing processing, storage, backup, archival and application service components. The job will entail supervision of programmers and computer hardware specialists and will involve extensive interaction with researchers in determining and implementing the most efficient design.
Responsibilities:
Primary duties and work effort
60%: Direct, design and supervise management and maintenance of large data servers (over 100 terabytes of data), application servers (Windows and Linux) for processing data, automation of processing tasks, processing applications, backup, and retention components; design and supervise resources for distributed network computing, including cluster computing. This also includes application development as well as managing programmers, system administrators and desktop support.
15%: Assist users with data management and analysis systems, including generation of requirements and interface documents.
25%: Interact with CIND, VA, UCSF and NCIRE personnel to plan and direct future IT needs. This consists of active participation in generating requirements and planning activities, including applications for funding and budget management. Monitor and interact with VA and NCIRE IT organizations to ensure that the CIND IT environment remains responsive to CIND users’ requirements.
Typical work units:
Based on an analysis of currently funded projects, it is clear that ongoing analysis of current and future data storage, transport, and analysis requirements is critical to the success of these projects and hence is a major work unit. In particular there is a continuing need to identify bottlenecks in the data management system and address them via design, specification and purchase of hardware and software components and upgrades for data servers, computer clusters, LAN components, and backup and archival systems.
Frequent interaction with hardware and software vendors, such as Microsoft, Dell, Penguin Computing, HP, Mathworks, Mathematica, Veritas for the specification and purchase of new hardware and software as well as maintenance of existing hardware and software for the data management and analysis system is a major work unit.
Supervision of software and hardware personnel for implementation of data storage management system in terms of leading weekly meetings, providing requirements and API documentation, and assistance with troubleshooting is a major work unit.
Frequent interaction with researchers in terms of assisting them in use of the data management system, distributed network computing, processing requests for features, and fielding any complaints about the data management system is a required work unit.
Tracking the medical informatics literature to monitor recent innovations that can be incorporated into the design and feature set of the data management system is a required work unit.
Qualifications:
Proven experience managing IT development and system management groups, ideally with experience in a research environment
Technical knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and their capabilities and constraints.
Experience managing and maintaining distributed computing network environments and computer clusters (e.g. using Sun Grid Engine, Scyld Clusterware) Knowledge of at least one major programming language (such as C, C++, C#, Java) and at least one object oriented scripting language (preferably python).
Proven ability to both manage and contribute to scientific software development in a complex environment.
Proven experience managing IT budgets, specifying, ordering and installing hardware and software systems.
Demonstrated ability to interact with IT users and scientists or widely varying knowledge and sophistication and communicate effectively and consistently.
Demonstrated ability to take user requirements and develop efficient and achievable implementation solutions of appropriate complexity.
Proven ability to lead a highly technical and highly motivated team of IT professionals.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
To apply please visit www.ncire.org and apply for job number 2009-1447
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