Scientific Platform Specialist (Linux Research Platform)

Basel  ‐ Vor Ort
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Beschreibung

For our life-science client we are currently looking for a Scientific application, infrastructure specialist (for Linux Research Platform).

Start date: 26.03.2018

End date: 31.12.2019 (extension might be possible)

Location: Basel

Remote: no

Travel: no

Important:

Knowledge of Linux system administration, scientific application build and tuning, high performance compute (HPC) and storage systems, Scripting and devOps approach to platform administration.

Main tasks:

- 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.
- Architecting, developing and maintaining scientific computing platforms and working with scientists on their application needs and translating this to infrastructure needs provided in partnership with service providers
- Working with scientists on their Linux application needs and translating this to core infrastructure needs provided in partnership with service providers.

Main technical skills

- 3+ years of administering Linux HPC environments
- Linux build and packaging tools (Make, CMake, Easybuild, RPM, Yum) experience
- Experience installing and configuring scientific applications particularly on a Linux/Unix platform (eg: Schrodinger, Moe, Bowtie, Gromacs, R, Python, Matlab, Topspin, Pipeline Pilot).

Technical skills (some of the mentioned below)

- Parallel Filesystem (eg Lustre, GPFS) and Scale-out NAS (eg Isilon) experience
- DevOPS approach: configuration management (eg puppet), automated build/release test and deployment (eg jenkins, git)
- Cloud technologies, infrastructure,platform as a service, AWS, Google, Azure
- Workload management, queue configuration (eg SLURM, Torque, LSF)
- Parallel programming techniques and tuning, openmp, mpi knowledge
- HPC cluster build and management tools (eg bright, xcat) knowledge
- HPC infrastructure components, infiniband networking, GPUs knowledge
- Scripting: Shell, python, Perl
- Big Data frameworks (eg Hadoop, Mapreduce, Spark)
- Monitoring tools/frameworks (eg nagios, ganglia, elk)
- Virtualization and containerisation awareness - Professional Linux/Unix Certifications
- Java or C++ programming are a plus

General skills:

- Senior level technical operational skills, such as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis. Writing application and platform documentation; and user training and education experience
- Scientific knowledge or awareness: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences
- Experience in fast changing environments where solutions are deployed and retired at high pace.
- Performing platform and application benchmarking
- Good communication skills and Fluent English, German is a plus
- Understanding of CSV and ITIL concepts is a plus

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Start
26/03/2018
Dauer
21 months
Von
Michael Bailey Associates - Zurich
Eingestellt
07.03.2018
Projekt-ID:
1516141
Vertragsart
Freiberuflich
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