IT SCRTY ANL 5 - 136102

Job Description is Pending Classification.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:

The Mission of the San Diego Supercomputer Center is to translate innovation into practice. SDSC adopts and partners on innovations in industry and academia in the areas of software, hardware, computational and data sciences, and related areas, and translates them into cyberinfrastructure that solves practical problems across any and all scientific domains and societal endeavors. Cyberinfrastructure refers to an accessible, integrated network of high-performance computing, data, and networking resources and expertise, focused on accelerating scientific inquiry and discovery. With more than 250 employees and $30-50M of revenue a year, SDSC is a global leader in the design, development, and operations of cyberinfrastructure.

SDSC supports hundreds of multidisciplinary programs spanning a wide variety of domains, from earth sciences and biology to astrophysics, bioinformatics, and health IT. SDSC presently operates multiple large HPC systems ranging from a 120k x86 CPU core general purpose system to a system explicitly designed for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and a nationally distributed system open for all of academia to integrate with. SDSC offers research data services across the entire vertical stack from universally scalable storage to consulting services on FAIR, Big Data, and AI. SDSC offers a rich set of cloud services both on-premise, in the commercial cloud, and as hybrid services across both.

SDSC has three geographic scopes, a national scope supporting cyberinfrastructure for the entire US research and education community, a California scope with a special focus on convergence research that addresses the three dominant threats to CA: Drought, Fire, Earthquakes, and a campus scope focusing on advancing the global impact of SDSC by advancing the research objectives of the UC San Diego faculty, researchers, and students. SDSC impacts researchers at scales from 1,000's to Millions. SDSC annually trains thousands of researchers in cyberinfrastructure tools and software, and supports thousands of individual researchers via Unix accounts on its large HPC systems. SDSC was a leader developing the Science Gateway concept, and continues to be a global leader in its evolution. SDSC operates multiple major such gateways with user communities ranging from the tens of thousands to the millions. SDSC's educational programs includes online courses that have been attended by more than a million students.

SDSC is committed to democratizing access to cyberinfrastructure across all of its geographic scopes. SDSC strives towards a culture that supports our employees to be their best, achieve their goals, and enjoy their lives, both professionally and personally.

The Stack Science Division is a leading academic organization specializing in cyberinfrastructure development, managed cloud services, and community building. We collaborate with researchers and educators to facilitate breakthrough discoveries by building and operating virtual environments for science and education. Our services drive research and scientific outcomes through a comprehensive suite of offerings, including science gateways as a service, research software development, secure cloud enclaves, and regulatory data management. Adopting a customer-centric and solution-focused approach, the Stack Science team is dedicated to advancing scientific community building, enhancing cyberinfrastructure, accelerating research goals, and achieving societal impact through collaboration and excellence.

POSTION OVERVIEW:

The IT Security Analyst 5 is the lead subject matter expert for the security of SDSC's supercomputer systems. Having wide-ranging experience in IT security applications, the incumbent applies professional concepts and campus, medical center, or Office of the President objectives to resolve campus-wide, institution-wide, and multi-institutional security issues-up to and including the most complex-where analysis of situations and data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Directs the selection of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to obtain results. Serves in a lead capacity and is considered a subject matter expert at this level.

Using deep expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) systems, including resource managers, schedulers, and parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre), the IT Security Analyst 5 is responsible for architecting and leading the deployment of security monitoring protocols and controls across multiple networks and HPC systems to detect and defend against advanced threats. This position develops institution-wide security policies, particularly those applicable to national supercomputing systems and compliance-focused environments such as CUI (NIST 800-171).

The incumbent leads SDSC's representation in national programs and organizations that define security standards, processes, and policies for supercomputing systems across the U.S. Research and Education community. They define and direct responses to the most complex or broad-scale security incidents targeting national systems, lead forensic analysis across SDSC platforms to identify root causes, and recommend architectural and procedural changes to prevent recurrence.

The position collaborates closely with SDSC researchers, advising them on securing software against highly sophisticated threats, and performs detailed assessments of supercomputer architecture to strengthen system defenses. The analyst also leads the development and implementation of security policies for SDSC's supercomputing resources, including compliance hosting areas, ensuring alignment with broader institutional and national objectives.

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1. Expert experience using IT security systems and tools. Subject matter expert for the most complex security tools including Intrusion Detection Systems, log collection systems, and firewalls. Subject matter expert in the customization of security tools to meet the unique requirements of a Supercomputer environment.

2. Demonstrated skill at administering complex security controls and configurations to computer hardware, software and networks. Including application of these methods to Supercomputer Systems. Subject matter expert knowledge of both the Supercomputer/High Performance Computing (HPC) and security fields to provide security direction, consulting, and expertise to the Supercomputer community.

3. Advanced knowledge and experience with network, data, and application layer mechanisms and protocols, such as TCP/IP, HTTP(S), DNS, SMTP, NTP, BGP, etc. Advanced knowledge and experience with Ethernet and IP networking, including VLANs, subnets, and routing.

4. Advanced experience in technical programming or security administration in a medium sized (~50) installation of UNIX and/or Windows workstations or larger. In-depth knowledge in the concepts, software utilities (i.e. compilers and debuggers), principles, codes, operating system internals and utilities, standards, techniques and procedures in system and networking administration. Knowledge of Java, TCL/Expect, Javascript, and the Windows programming environment. Knowledge of Windows operating system internals and utilities.

5. Advanced experience in incident response and digital forensics including reporting. Expertise in forensic analysis to determine the root cause of breaches.

• Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on Background Check results.

• Work on-call, off-hours, and weekends as needed in order to respond to security incidents.

• Must be willing and able to travel for conferences and meetings.

• Job Description is Pending Classification.

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