position opening: Manager, Computer Systems Operations, U. Colorado

["Michael C. Mozer" <dendrite.cs.colorado.edu">mozer]

			     POSITION OPENING

Position: 	Manager, Computing Systems Operations
		Computer Science Department
		University of Colorado, Boulder


Minimum Required Background:

	Bachelor degree or equivalent experience, plus three years UNIX system 
	administration and TCP/IP network administration, plus three years 
	management of system and network admin staff (5+ FTEs) in internal user 
	support environment.


Desirable Background:

	Experience supporting a University research environment.


Required Skills:

	Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable
	of writing internal reports, acting as a vendor and user
	liaison, making presentations to department faculty and staff,
	and working closely with upper management.

	Ability to forecast and plan budgets.

	Ability to supervise, evaluate, interview, hire, discipline,
	and otherwise manage permanent professional staff and
	student staff.

	Ability to train system administration staff and users and
	develop training courses and materials.

	Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.  Ability
	to weigh both technical and business related factors in
	decisions.

	Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate
	them.

	A solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system;
	understands paging and swapping, inter-process communication,
	devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts
	(for example, "inode" and "superblock"), and performance
	analysis tools.

	A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing
	environment concepts; understands principles of routing,
	client-server programming, the design of consistent
	network-wide file system layouts, and integrating heterogeneous
	UNIX systems.


Responsibilities:

	Provide computing facilities services to the faculty, staff,
	and graduate students of the Computer Science department.

	Establish and/or recommend policies on computing system and facility 
	use and services.  Enforce computing system and facility policies.  
	Balance technical and business related factors in policy making.

	Supervise five permanent staff, two graduate research assistants, and 
	three to six student or temporary staff.  Establish job descriptions 
	and classifications.  Determine staff requirements including needs 
	for additional staff.  Fill vacant positions by establishing 
	applicant requirements, soliciting and evaluating applicants, 
	and hiring staff.  Establish staff performance guidelines.  
	Motivate, evaluate, and enforce staff performance relative to 
	established guidelines.

	Train system and network administration staff, and develop training 
	courses for staff and users.

	Determine when and which supplies, parts, and internal equipment are 
	required.  Purchase all consumable parts and supplies and 
	non-consumable internal equipment.  Write and authorize purchase 
	requisitions, memo purchase orders, and inter-departmental invoices.
	Track purchases through on-line purchasing system and with vendors.  
	Receive orders and enter pertinent data in on-line receiving system 
	and inventory systems.  Track equipment inventory as required by 
	Property Management.  Manage $300k annual operations budget.

	Recommend hardware and software configurations to be purchased for
	end-users.  Purchase all end-user equipment performing all
	aspects as for internal supplies and equipment above, but
	at the final direction of end-users in consideration of
	defined services.  Equipment purchases range from $200k to
	$500k annually.

	Communicate and coordinate with internal department research
	groups and committees in support of providing computing services.

	Communicate and coordinate with external vendors as liaison
	for computing hardware and software maintenance and license contracts.

	Communicate and coordinate with other department representatives on 
	campus (Computing and Network Services, Telecommunications, Facilities
	Management, Buying and Contracting, Property Management, other academic
	departments, etc.) as CS department computing facilities liaison.

	Communicate and coordinate with other organizations on the Internet 
	as CS department liaison to maintain the integrity and security of 
	our computing facility.  Cooperate in incidents where our users or 
	facility may threaten the integrity of other network organizations.

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To apply, send your resume (with list of references) by January 5, 1994 to:  
CSOps Manager Search, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO 80309-0430.  Direct specific inquiries to Professor Mike Mozer
(mozercs.colorado.edu).

We expect to receive many qualified applications from the Denver metro area,
and thus discourage those not already in the area from applying.  Only in
the unlikely event that no suitable local candidate can be found will we 
consider bringing in non-local candidates for interviews.

The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer.