Senior Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform)

Basel  ‐ Vor Ort
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Beschreibung

For one of our clients in the industry sector we are currently looking for a Senior Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform) to be based in Basel.This is a contract position starting from thre middle of February expected to last until the end of December 2019.

The Scientific application/infrastructure specialist (for Linux research platform and HPC environment) will be involved in working with the company's scientists on their Linux application needs and translating this to core infrastructure needs provided in partnership with the service providers.

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.

Must Haves

  • Senior level technical operational skills, such as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis
  • 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.
  • Advanced English language skill is a must
  • Scientific knowledge or awareness: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences
  • Desirable understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts
  • 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
  • Writing application and platform documentation
  • Performing platform and application benchmarkin

Nice to Haves

  • German speaking would be considered an advantage.
  • 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

If you match the above skill set and are interested in this position, I look forward to receiving your application via this website.

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

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Stamford Consultants AG
Eingestellt
31.01.2018
Projekt-ID:
1494655
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