Beschreibung
Senior Scientific Platform Specialist/Linux HPC
About us:
ITech Consult AG is a certified ISO Swiss company with offices also located in Germany, Great Britain and Ireland. ITech Consult is specialised in delivering ICT candidates for contract work. We were founded in 1997 by IT professionals; hence we well understand what it means to be professionally supported in your search for a new project and being employed.
Reference No.: 916699NC
Role: Senior Scientific Platform Specialist/Linux HPC
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Work load: 100%
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: until 31.12.2018
Main tasks & responsibilities:
- Delivery of the scientific Linux application environment
- Support of HPC platform, Linux systems including laboratory environment
- Manage scientific application and data analysis toolset build system
- Contribute to HPC/HTC workflow and job submission optimization activities
- Contributes to the concept, planning and execution of projects.
- Writing application and platform documentation
- Performing platform and application benchmarking
- User training and education experience
Must have skills:
- Senior level technical operational skills, such as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis
- Scientific knowledge or awareness: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Proactivity, with a clear ability to think beyond boundaries, take controlled risks and assume responsibilities
- Excellent customer orientation and delivery focus with good end user perspective
- Experience in fast changing environments where solutions are deployed and retired at high pace.
- Problem solving attitude
- Ability to work effectively within a team, including virtual teams
- Clear goal orientation and supportive of change
- Active open source contributor
Technical skills:
- 3 years of administering Linux HPC environments
- Experience of Linux build and packaging tools (Make, CMake, Easybuild, RPM, Yum)
- Proven experience working with installing and configuring scientific applications particularly on a Linux/Unix platform, examples: Schrodinger, Moe, Bowtie, Gromacs, R, Python, Matlab, Topspin, Pipeline Pilot.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience working with Parallel Filesystem (eg Lustre, GPFS) and Scale-out NAS (eg Isilon)
- DevOPS approach: configuration management (eg puppet), automated build/release test & deployment (eg jenkins, git)
- Cloud technologies, infrastructure/platform as a service, AWS, Google, Azure
- Workload management, queue configuration (eg SLURM, Torque, LSF)
- Knowledge of parallel programming techniques and tuning, openmp, mpi
- Knowledge of HPC cluster build and management tools (eg bright, xcat)
- Knowledge of HPC infrastructure components, infiniband networking, GPUs
- Scripting: Shell, python, Perl
- Big Data frameworks (eg Hadoop, Mapreduce, Spark)
- Monitoring tools/frameworks (eg nagios, ganglia, elk)
- Programming skills in high level languages such as Java or C++
- Virtualization and containerisation awareness
- Professional Linux/Unix Certifications
- Desirable understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts
- Experience in a global organization, working in an international and multicultural environment
Languages:
- Advanced English language
- German language an advantage.