Systems Administrator

**Project Description

• Support secure, reliable, and compliant operation of cloud-hosted research applications, agentic AI systems, scientific SaaS platforms, and production services.

• Work across GCP, AWS, cloud containers, AI/ML models, MCP servers, APIs, scientific databases, and third-party SaaS platforms .

• **Support scientists, developers, IT, cybersecurity, networking, data teams, architecture, and vendors in transitioning research prototypes into secure, repeatable, production-ready services.

  **Key Responsibilities

  • Administer GCP/AWS cloud projects, IAM, service accounts, networking, storage, compute, quotas, and SaaS environments.

  • Operate Cloud Run, Docker containers, registries, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and Google Cloud IAP .

  • Manage identities, RBAC, SSO, OAuth, service accounts, machine-to-machine authentication, secrets, API keys, tokens, and certificates.

  • Maintain approved AI agents, MCP servers, tools, integrations, data sources, permissions, and credentials .

  • Maintain Dockerfiles, container images, Python/application dependencies, registries, runtime configurations, and rollback procedures.

  • Monitor logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, health checks, API limits, model/tool failures, token usage, cloud costs, and service availability.

  • Maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code , including source control, security scanning, testing, approvals, and deployment traceability.

  • Perform incident triage, escalation, root-cause analysis, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and service continuity.

  • Manage incidents, service requests, problems, and changes using ServiceNow and Jira .

  • Support vulnerability remediation, patching, security investigations, audits, threat modeling, and risk assessments.

  • Identify shadow AI services, unmanaged integrations, unapproved MCP servers, and overprivileged identities.

  • Create operational runbooks, technical documentation, and lifecycle/ownership documentation.

  • ******Help transition scientist-managed prototypes into secure, supportable production deployments.

    Requirements

    **Mandatory Requirements

    • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Technology, or related field.
    • 3+ years of experience in systems/cloud administration.
    • Production administration experience with GCP, AWS, Azure, or comparable cloud platforms .
    • ****Hands-on experience with:
      • Linux
      • Docker/containers
      • Python environments
      • APIs
      • Networking, DNS, and TLS
      • IAM, SSO, OAuth, service accounts
      • Secrets management
      • Serverless/container orchestration such as Cloud Run or Kubernetes
      • **Knowledge of:

        • CI/CD

        • Infrastructure as Code

        • Monitoring and observability

        • Incident management

        • Backup/recovery

        • Patching

        • Vulnerability remediation

        • Experience with ServiceNow and Jira .

        • ****Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

          **Preferred Skills

          • GCP IAP, Cloud Run, Secret Manager, Artifact Registry, Cloud Monitoring .
          • Vertex AI, Gemini, or other AI/ML platform administration .
          • Experience supporting GCP + AWS hybrid/multi-cloud environments .
          • Agentic AI, AI orchestration, MCP servers , AI APIs, or model operations.
          • Scientific computing, bioinformatics, laboratory automation, multiomics, research data platforms, or scientific SaaS.
          • Container scanning, SBOM, software supply-chain security, data integrity, and auditability.
          • Cloud, systems engineering, ITSM, or cybersecurity certifications.**************************

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