Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform)

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Beschreibung

Harvey Nash is looking for a Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform) for a 17 month project in Switzerland.

The role is for a candidate who is involved in architecting, developing and maintaining the clients´ scientific computing platforms and working with his scientists on their application needs and translating this to infrastructure needs provided in partnership with their service providers.

You are responsible for

. Ensuring 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
. Assisting with scientific application and data analysis tool set build, installation, configuration, maintenance and advanced tuning
. Contributing to the concept, planning and execution of projects

Requirements

. 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
" At least 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 (+7 years), such as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis; writing application and platform documentation; and user training and education experience
" Experience in fast changing environments where solutions are deployed and retired at high pace; problem solving attitude; customer orientation and delivery focus with good end user perspective
" Good communication and interpersonal skills; advanced English language skill is a must; German speaking is a plus
" Clear goal orientation and supportive of change; proactivity, with a clear ability to think beyond boundaries, take controlled risks and assume responsibilities; experience in a global organization, working in an international and multicultural environment is considered a valuable asset
" Scientific knowledge or awareness bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences; desirable understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts; active open source contributor
. 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

Are you available immediately, have experience working within a Life Science company? Please send your complete CV (Word documents preferred) to (see below) For further details feel free to call me.

I am looking forward to receiving your application.

Start
01/08/2017
Dauer
17 months
Von
Harvey Nash IT Recruitment Switzerland
Eingestellt
31.05.2017
Projekt-ID:
1352653
Vertragsart
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