The University of Maryland College Park Department of Geographical Sciences is searching for a Senior Systems ArchitectAdministrator and Storage Engineer to support global environmental change research at the Global Land Analysis and Discovery laboratory in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland The GLAD lab monitors global land change using time series satellite imagery including tropical deforestation crop monitoring urbanization among other themes Results quantify the changing balance between economic land uses and natural systems on a changing planet To do our work the GLAD lab employs a data intensive HPC to process Pb scale raster inputs and is supported by various funding sources from NASA USAID the government of Norway Bezos Earth Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation We are seeking talented engineers to manage our processing system The Sr Storage Engineer is responsible for large PB scale storage environments in the department and GLAD environments The engineer is responsible for a lot of high capacity FC based storage arrays and software defined storage systems running on Ceph The position is responsible for about 72PB of raw storage capacity and growing The position is also responsible for supporting backup and archive using IBM tape library spanning 10s of PB scale The position is responsible for full life cycle management of these environments This position is a 12 month full time status We are able to provide sponsorship of an H1B visa This position offers excellent benefits including but not limited to health insurance generous leave package from the first year accrued at 22 days annual leave 3 days personal leave amp 14 days sick leave retirement subsidy ORP Pension System tuition remission and many professional development opportunities The salary range or hiring range for this position has been established from 120000 to 160000 per year depending on qualifications The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity experience education specialty and training This position is also hybrid telework eligible with flexible work hours GEOG promotes growth in individuals and a healthy work life balance within a collaborative culture