# Lab Administrator at DDN

Lab Administrator at DDN in Columbia Office. On-site, full-time, paying $65k–$100k. Posted August 20, 2026.

- Company: DDN
- Location: Columbia Office
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $65k–$100k
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/ce4a750d-7e74-4795-b82d-2ab8ecbe89b9/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/lab-administrator-ddn-qgn11j

## Requirements

- Strong Linux administration experience (Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS)

## Description

**Role Summary**
Responsible for the setup, maintenance, security, and day-to-day operation of a technical/research lab environment (servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and lab-issued workstations), ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance with organizational policies.
**Key Responsibilities**

- Install, configure, and maintain lab hardware (servers, storage arrays, NICs, switches) and software (OS images, drivers, monitoring tools)

- Manage user access, accounts, and permissions across lab systems

- Monitor system health, performance, and capacity (CPU, memory, storage, network utilization)

- Troubleshoot hardware/software issues and coordinate with vendors for support/RMAs

- Maintain documentation: network diagrams, asset inventories, configuration baselines, SOPs

- Implement and enforce security policies (patching, firewall rules, access controls)

- Manage backups, disaster recovery procedures, and data retention policies

- Support researchers/engineers with environment setup for experiments, benchmarks, or testing (e.g., provisioning compute nodes, storage volumes, network configs)

- Track licensing, warranties, and hardware lifecycle (procurement to decommissioning)

- Coordinate lab scheduling/resource allocation if shared across teams

**Required Skills/Qualifications**

- Strong Linux administration experience (Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS)

- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VLANs, bonding/LACP, basic troubleshooting)

- Experience with storage systems (SAN/NAS, parallel filesystems like Lustre/GPFS a plus)

- Scripting ability (Bash, Python) for automation

- Familiarity with virtualization/containerization (KVM, Docker) is a plus

- Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix)

- Understanding of hardware components (CPUs, NUMA architecture, PCIe, NICs/RDMA)

- Good documentation and communication skills

**Nice to Have**

- Experience with HPC/AI infrastructure (InfiniBand, RDMA, GPU clusters)

- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet)