Your assignment

The HPC team from the ICT domain at the University of Ghent offers centralized services in the field of scientific computing, including access to infrastructure, training, and support for researchers from the University of Ghent, industry, and other knowledge institutions. As part of this assignment, this team manages the Tier1 Compute and Cloud infrastructure of the Flemish Supercomputer Centre, which allows researchers from all over Belgium to request resources (such as accounts, computing time, and storage). Additionally, the HPC team is building its own Tier2 compute infrastructure, which provides University of Ghent researchers with access to similar resources.

We are looking for a motivated Linux System Administrator who will focus primarily on managing, optimizing, and further developing our storage environment. At the same time, you will also support general system management and work together with colleagues to maintain and improve our entire IT infrastructure as a System Administrator with a focus on Storage, you will be responsible for:

• Managing our storage solutions
• Performing capacity planning, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Participating in discussions and implementing improvements within the storage infrastructure
• Supporting projects related to HPC, virtualization, cloud, and data management

For more information about the job content, please contact Wouter Depypere at wouter.depypere@ugent.be or 09/264.47.84. (Note: Please do not send your application via email, but apply online)

Your profile

Knowledge and experience

• You have a background in IT
• You have experience with deploying and managing Linux systems
• Experience with HPC systems is a plus
• Experience with scripting or automation in Python is highly valued
• Knowledge of distributed file systems such as Ceph, Lustre, or GPFS is a plus but not necessary
• You speak, read, and write fluent English and have good knowledge of Dutch
• We also welcome applications from junior profiles and recent graduates

Skills and attitudes

• You can work independently
• You have good communication skills
• You can work result-oriented within a team environment
• You are curious, eager to learn, and willing to dive deep into technical issues
• You are proactively inclined and enthusiastic about taking the initiative

What do we offer you?

You will be employed with a contract of indefinite duration in function class A. Read more about our remuneration on our website.

Ghent University strongly focuses on the career development of its employees. You will have opportunities to discover other roles and gain new experiences within Ghent University (both temporary and permanent).

In addition, you will receive:

• 36 vacation days (for full-time employment of 38 hours/week)
• the possibility of working from home and flexible working hours if your job allows it
• favorable pension conditions
• hospitalization insurance
• reimbursement of your public transport subscription and/or a bicycle allowance for commuting
• eco vouchers
• an extensive training and development offer and ample internal career opportunities
• a good work-life balance
• our benefits platform 'benefits at work' and a number of other benefits such as an extensive sports offer at favorable prices, discount rate in the student restaurants, free flu vaccination, etc.

Interested?

To apply for this vacancy, you must have a master's diploma.

Submit the following documents no later than 31/01/2026 at 11:59 PM:

• Your CV
• Your cover letter
• A copy of your diploma
• If you obtained your diploma outside the European Union (except for diplomas obtained in the United Kingdom before January 31, 2020): an equivalence certificate from NARIC (www.naric.be)

Note: your application is only valid if you have the required diploma at the time of application, and you provide us with all the above-mentioned documents before the application deadline.

We believe it is important that everyone can participate in the selection process under the best conditions. Do you have a disability? Please let us know in advance via selecties@ugent.be so that we can provide reasonable accommodations.

More questions about applying online or the selection procedure? Check our FAQ.