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Systems Administrator/Developer

The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience and qualifications

The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Lab is an advanced transportation research and development laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. The CATT Lab’s research provides a bridge between the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) community and the information technology community. The CATT Lab specializes in data archiving, data retrieval and visualization, 3D modeling and simulation, software development, and other advanced technologies. The CATT Lab prides itself on being innovative and creative problem solvers with a strong will to “raise the bar” for the transportation R&D community. The primary resource of the CATT Lab is the interdisciplinary group of over 50 undergraduate and graduate researchers and talented staff.

Position description
Serves as the Systems Administrator and Software Developer overseeing the day-to-day Lab operations, maintenance, and support of undergraduate and graduate research initiatives. The Systems Admin/developer is also responsible for the 24/7 maintenance and operations of CATT Lab production level systems. The System Administrator will also spend up to 50% of his/her time leading team based software development projects including mentoring junior programmers and helping to successfully deploy applications to the production environment.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Plan and maintain network/hardware of three server rooms and two development labs;
• Manage two to three undergraduate/graduate student IT assistants;
• Serve as lead developer on one or more team-based software development projects.

Required skills
• Familiarity administrating Linux (CENTOS, RHEL) Servers;
• Network Design and Switch/Firewall Configuration;
• Experience managing multiple web servers and application servers;
• PC Hardware Troubleshooting;
• Knowledge of IP based networking and technologies such as SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, RDP, FTP;
• Strong verbal, presentation, and writing ability;
• Shell scripting and process automation;
• Object Oriented programming.

Desired skills
• Experience with Apache, Jetty, and ActiveMQ;
• Knowledge of Cisco and Dell networking equipment;
• Familiarity administrating Windows Server 2003/2008 and Active Directory;
• Experience with public sector, transportation, and transit agencies;
• Experience with OpenBSD Packet Filter;
• Backup planning and implementation;
• Experience with large datasets and databases.

How to apply
Please send a resume directly to the CATT Laboratory Director, Michael L. Pack at PackML@umd.edu with a cc to Nikola Ivanov at ivanovn@umd.edu and Jason Ellison at jjelliso@umd.edu.
 

Email: PackML@umd.edu for further details.