Beschreibung
Linux/HPC Specialist | Basel | 15 Months
Purpose: The position will involve working with our scientists on their Linux application needs and translating this to core infrastructure needs provided in partnership with our service providers.
Required skill set: Knowledge of Linux system administration, scientific application build and tuning, high performance compute (HPC) and storage systems, Scripting and DevOps approach to platform administration.
General information:
- - Start date: 18.09.2017
- - End date: 31.12.2018 (with possible extension)
- - Work location: Basel
- - Remote: not possible
- - Travel: not required
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.
Technical skills - Must Haves (at least 2 of them):
- Desirable at least 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.
Technical skills - Nice to Haves (at least 3 of them):
- 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++ are a plus
- Virtualization and containerisation awareness
- Professional Linux/Unix Certifications