Senior Scientific Platform Specialist (Linux Platform)

Basel  ‐ Vor Ort
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Beschreibung

Our client, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies based in Basel, is looking for a Senior Scientific Platform Specialist who has advanced knowledge of Linux system administration, HPC technologies and storage systems, Scripting and DevOPS approach to platform administration.

This is a long term contracting role based in Basel and planned to start in August until the end of 2018.

Are you a Senior Scientific Platform Specialist with knowledge of HPC infrastructure components and Parallel Filesystem (eg GPFS) within a pharmaceutical environment and currently looking for you next project?

If so, please have a look at the opportunity we can offer you:

Project background:

Technical Operations identify specialized technology needs, providing agile and customized infrastructure and services. These deliver state of the art computing, enabling our scientists to be innovative, competitive and successful.

The position will involve architecting, developing and maintaining the scientific computing platforms and working with the scientists on their application needs and translating this to infrastructure needs provided in partnership with the service providers.

Tasks:

  • Ensures installation, configuration and operation of the scientific platform environment to achieve the performance and agility of the various applications supported (in the range of several hundreds)
  • Definition of HPC/HTC workflows and job submission optimization activities
  • Assist with scientific application and data analysis tool set build, installation, configuration, maintenance and advanced tuning
  • Contributes to the concept, planning and execution of projects

Ideal Profile:

  • At least 7 years of advanced experience working with large scale Linux/HPC environments
  • Knowledge of HPC cluster build and management tools (eg bright, xcat); HPC infrastructure components, infiniband networking; Parallel Filesystem (eg GPFS, Lustre); GPUs; and monitoring/benchmarking/tuning HPC workloads and applications
  • Knowledge of Workload management and architecture, queue configuration, such as SLURM, LSF, Gridengine and parallel programming techniques and tuning, openmp, mpi
  • Min. 10 years general Linux system administration skills: DevOPS approach: configuration management (eg puppet), automated build/release test & deployment (eg jenkins, git); monitoring tools/frameworks (eg nagios, ganglia, elk); Scripting: Shell, python, Perl;
  • 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
  • Minimum Bachelor computer science or equivalent, ideally Masters
  • Professional Linux related certifications, qualifications and industry presentations/recognition
  • Desirable experience working with 1) installing and configuring scientific applications particularly on a Linux/Unix platform (eg Schrodinger, Moe, Bowtie, Gromacs, R, Python, Matlab, Topspin, Pipeline Pilot) and 2) also experience of Linux build and packaging tools (eg Make, CMake, Easybuild, RPM, Yum)
  • Programming skills in high level languages such as Java or C++ are a plus
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Excellent communication skills with fluency in English

Please note, we can only consider EU/CH candidates or those with a valid work permit for Switzerland.

Are you interested with this opportunity and would like to have more information? Please get in touch with Florence Wespiser ( (see below) )

Start
01.08.2017
Dauer
17 months
Von
Stamford Consultants AG
Eingestellt
18.05.2017
Projekt-ID:
1346198
Vertragsart
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