Infrastructure Engineer
Somerville, NJ - USA
Job Summary
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
At Mass General Brigham Digital we pride ourselves on our ability to create maximum strategic clinical and operational value from established and emergent technologies for our patients care teams researchers and employees. Digital health will not only enhance the equity and efficiency of healthcare delivery but it will also help make medicine more personalized and precise.We recognize that increasing value and continually improving quality while maintaining an inclusive focus are essential to organizational excellence and we invite you to join us on this journey. The work we do in Digital is a strategic imperative and there is a strong and growing understanding of how together we will transform Mass General Brigham in innovative and impactful ways.
The Systems Engineer II is responsible for designing deploying maintaining and supporting critical IT infrastructure that enables research computing platforms across Mass General Brigham and plays a key role in ensuring the operational efficiency reliability and scalability of infrastructure supporting High Performance Computing (HPC) systems Trusted Research Environments (Research Enclaves) enterprise storage services and other technical platforms that are part of the Digital Research Operations services to the MGB research community. The position focuses primarily on storage network and hypervisor infrastructure engineering. The engineer will work closely with infrastructure teams researchers and platform engineers to design deploy and operate infrastructure services that support advanced scientific workloads.
In addition to engineering responsibilities such as architecture reviews infrastructure deployment and operational improvements this role includes a user-facing component requiring responsiveness and effective communication with researchers and technical stakeholders.
Qualifications
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Design deploy and maintain storage and network infrastructure supporting research computing environments including HPC systems and Trusted Research Environments.
- Implement and maintain enterprise storage platforms supporting high-performance research workloads.
- Design and maintain network infrastructure supporting research computing platforms including high-performance networking environments.
- Support hypervisor infrastructure used for research platforms and supporting services.
- Deploy and maintain infrastructure both on-premises and in cloud environments.
- Participate in architecture reviews and infrastructure planning for new research platforms and services.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues across compute storage networking and virtualization layers.
- Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning configuration management and operational workflows.
- Monitor infrastructure systems and respond to operational incidents to ensure platform availability and reliability.
- Provide technical consultation and infrastructure guidance for research initiatives and platform deployments.
- Coordinate with vendors and internal infrastructure teams to troubleshoot provide support and escalate when necessary.
- Support provisioning processes including infrastructure acquisition deployment and lifecycle management.
- Communicate effectively with research users and stakeholders to support infrastructure needs and resolve technical issues.
- Use the Mass General Brigham values to govern decisions actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients Affordability Accountability & Service Commitment Decisiveness Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion Integrity & Respect Learning Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth Teamwork & Collaboration.
- Use/s the Mass General Brigham values to govern decisions actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients Affordability Accountability & Service Commitment Decisiveness Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion Integrity & Respect Learning Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth Teamwork & Collaboration
- Technolgies and research service priorities may change over time and other duties and responsibilities as assigned as needed
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or a related field or equivalent professional experience.
- 5 years of experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Experience supporting Linux-based systems in production environments.
- Experience working with distributed storage and Scale-out enterprise storage platforms such as NetApp Dell PowerScale VDURA or similar technologies.
- Experience supporting data center networking technologies such as Arista Dell Networking Mellanox/NVIDIA networking or similar platforms.
- Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware or OpenStack.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible Terraform or similar technologies.
- Experience deploying or operating infrastructure in public cloud environments. Azure is preferred.
- Experience supporting research computing scientific computing or HPC environments is a plus.
Skills/Abilities/Competencies
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure including storage systems networking virtualization and compute environments.
- Ability to design deploy and troubleshoot infrastructure supporting large-scale or performance-sensitive workloads.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across multiple layers of infrastructure including networking storage virtualization and operating systems.
- Ability to automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows using modern infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including infrastructure engineering security and research computing groups.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders including research users.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond effectively in operational or incident situations.
- Demonstrated commitment to customer service responsiveness and supporting research users in a technical environment.
- Ability to document infrastructure architecture operational procedures and technical processes clearly.
- Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with evolving infrastructure technologies.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- No direct reports; may provide guidance to less seasoned and new staff
Fiscal Responsibility
- Demonstrates fiscal responsibility by effectively using Mass General Brigham resources
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- This position requires occasional local travel to MGB sites vendors and/or conferences
- Hospital work environment working conditions include possible exposure to diseases or infections and may require safety gear (PPE) such as gloves and mask.
- Normal office working conditions. The noise level in the work environment is quiet to moderate.
- While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to sit; talk; or hear; use hands to finger; handle; or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and stoop; kneel; or crouch. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 5 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision and depth perception.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Working Model Requirements
M-F Eastern Business Hours Full Time required
Hybrid model includes in person onsite work at MGB local sites weekly or monthly to be determined based on business needs
Must be flexible for weekly or monthly in person stakeholder meetings team meetings and internal customer needs
On remote workdays employees must use a stable secure and compliant workstation in a quiet environment. Teams video is required and must be accessed using MGB-provided equipment
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Pay Range
$75275.20 - $109553.60/AnnualGrade
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About Company
Patients at Mass General have access to a vast network of physicians, nearly all of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty and many of whom are leaders within their fields.