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title: "Lab Administrator"
company: "DDN"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/ddn"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/ddn-lab-administrator-efafba46-d5e5-4d6f-bc2b-2232b307e657"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/ce4a750d-7e74-4795-b82d-2ab8ecbe89b9"
workplace: onsite
location: "Columbia Office"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: operations
region: other
skills: ["docker", "linux", "python"]
salary: "$85,000–$110,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-08-20T23:14:24.199Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T14:59:51.256Z
---

# Lab Administrator

**DDN** · Columbia Office

Salary: $85,000–$110,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/ce4a750d-7e74-4795-b82d-2ab8ecbe89b9

## About the role

**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)

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