Filing Deadline: Saturday, May 30, 2026

This is a 100% contract position for one (1) year, with the possibility of extension or career conversion.

Applies skills as a seasoned, experienced data/information management professional with a full understanding of industry practices and campus / medical center / OP and department methodologies, policies, and procedures to resolve complex and wide-ranging issues where analyses of situations or data require a review of a variety of factors. Demonstrates competency in selecting methods and techniques to obtain solutions.

Acts as an experienced professional for Internet measurements data collection and administration in support of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) lab at the UC San Diego Supercomputer Center. The duties of this position include the use of specialized tools for Internet measurement data collection, documentation, analysis, curation and dissemination, and software development related to these activities. The position undertakes to capture, curate, and sharing of four types of security-relevant Internet measurement data (topology, routing, unsolicited traffic, DNS), management of meta-data (e.g., geolocation and other annotations), and administering execution of new vetted Internet measurements experiments by researchers. Data collection and curation duties include implementing, testing, running, and refining data collection software based on environment and research needs, managing disk space and offloading collected data to distributed/cloud storage, and to long-term storage facilities, curating and indexing data including using various statistical disclosure controls for privacy protection.

Will assist CAIDA’s primary Systems Administrator with duties such as the configuration and remote maintenance of measurement systems, with particular attention to maintaining infrastructure and data security, and supporting a virtualized cloud research computing environment. Works with the system administrator to maintain 100GB passive monitoring platforms to capture two-way passive traces data. Maintain passive traces capturing, anonymization, post-processing, curation, and sharing protocols. Works to maintain two-way and Internet background radiation (unsolicited traffic) passive traces time-series database.

Supports users running vetted measurements experiments on CAIDA infrastructure including but not limited to execution of ITDK, Ark, and BGPStream.

This position interacts with numerous external collaborators including remote monitor site contacts, researchers with whom we share our data, collaborators with whom we share measurement infrastructure. This position also supports research programmers, visiting researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows with whom the group collaborates on publications and research.

Apply at https://employment.ucsd.edu/data-systems-analyst-3-136354/job/A68FA2F8B40B5D079F2C8F9952CB49E7

To be considered for this position, you must apply through Job #136354.

Filing Deadline: Saturday, May 30, 2026

This is a 100% contract position for one (1) year, with the possibility of extension or career conversion

The Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) is an independent analysis and research group based at the University of California’s San Diego Supercomputer Center. CAIDA investigates both practical and theoretical aspects of the Internet, with particular focus on topics that are macroscopic in nature and provide enhanced insight into the function of Internet infrastructure worldwide, improve the integrity of the field of Internet science as well as the integrity of operational Internet measurement and management, and inform science, technology, and communications public policies.

The Systems and Network Administrator will apply skills as an experienced systems infrastructure professional with a strong understanding of Internet infrastructure measurement opportunities: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing, Domain Name System (DNS), and an understanding of industry best practices in these areas for the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) program at UCSD/SDSC. They will design, deploy, manage, enhance, maintain and document large-scale data and compute solutions, including computer systems, networking, security, and writing and executing of complex scripts to build and sustain the infrastructure that supports Internet measurement research with evolving cybersecurity and networking needs. They will also design and implement continuous integration/deployment workflows with Ansible infrastructure-as-code (IaC), selectsand design, implement and automate processes such as vantage point onboarding and outage notifications; and selects big data systems like Apache Kafka for large-scale analysis to facilitate security research use of large data archives. Also, the incumbent will perform simple to moderate cost/benefit analyses in the development of measurement instrumentation and data capture, management, processing, and dissemination systems; as well as develop, implement, and deploy virtualization solutions for measurement and analysis software capabilities. The incumbent will also build dashboards to aggregate and correlate usage statistics across data sets and time, manage external requests (e.g., BGP peering), deploy new vantage points with IPv6 support, resolve connectivity issues, migrating collectors to virtual machines, and maintain monitoring through alerts, access controls, and Grafana dashboards. The Systems and Network Administrator will also create new metadata and schemas for existing community data sets, including for integration of data into cloud platform technologies as well as enable cloud-based data access, develops schemas for BGP data, and supports compute/storage clusters for Internet Health Report activities.

Additionally, the incumbent will perform complex security control activities through firewalls and permissions, maintains hardware/software inventories and vantage point databases, produces internal and public-facing documentation, and tracks usage statistics as well as manage community software issues and task prioritization based on community workshops and meetings. They will also provide user support through ticketing systems, develop virtualization solutions, manage community software priorities, and architect metadata and schemas for integrating community data sets into cloud platforms—combining technical expertise with outreach to the broader research community.

For more information, please visit: https://employment.ucsd.edu/systems-and-network-administrator-136522/job/08B7BB4439B7F59A88B0563B90D60546

To be considered for this position, you must apply through Job #136522.