Beschreibung
Background12 month+ HPC migration project
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
Candidates must have strong knowledge of Linux system administration, scientific application build and tuning, high performance compute/storage systems, cloud technologies, scripting and a devops approach to platform.
General Information
Start date: 01.01.2020
Latest start date: 01.03.2020
End date: 31.12.2021
Extension: currently no extension planned
Workload: 100%
Work location: Basel
Remote: possible as an exception
Travel: 5%
Team: 8
Tasks & Responsibilities
• Support an HPC migration project moving workloads to shared platforms including on premise HPC, container orchestration platform (k8s) and public cloud offerings
• Contribute to HPC/Scientific workflow and job submission optimization activities
• Experience giving training courses and developing material on complex applications and platforms
• Work with operational team on delivery/support of the scientific Linux application environment
Must Haves
Technical Skills (must haves):
• 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
• DevOPS approach: configuration management (e.g. puppet), automated build/release test & deployment (e.g. jenkins, git)
• Cloud technologies, infrastructure/platform as a service, AWS, Google, Azure
Other Skills:
? Experience in fast changing environments where solutions are deployed and retired at high pace.
? Problem solving attitude
? Senior level technical operational skills, such as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis
? Writing application and platform documentation
? Performing platform and application benchmarking
? User training and education experience
? Excellent customer orientation and delivery focus with good end user perspective
? Scientific knowledge or awareness – bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences
? Good communication and interpersonal skills
? Advanced English language skill is a must
? Ability to work effectively within a team, including virtual teams
? Clear goal orientation and supportive of change
? Proactivity, with a clear ability to think beyond boundaries, take controlled risks and assume responsibilities
? Desirable understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts
? Experience in a global organization, working in an international and multicultural environment is considered a valuable asset
? Active open source contributor
Nice to Haves
Technical Skills (at least 3)
? Experience working with Parallel Filesystem (e.g. Lustre, GPFS) and Scale-out NAS (e.g. Isilon)
? Understanding of object storage, S3, swift
? Workload management, queue configuration (e.g. SLURM, LSF, Torque)
? Virtualization and containerisation awareness, tools including kubernetes, docker, singularity
? Knowledge of parallel programming techniques and tuning, openmp, mpi
? Knowledge of HPC cluster build and management tools (e.g bright, xcat)
? Knowledge of HPC infrastructure components, infiniband networking, GPUs
? Scripting: shell, python, perl
? Big Data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, Mapreduce, Spark)
? Monitoring tools/frameworks (e.g. nagios, ganglia, elk)
? Programming skills in high level languages such as Java or C++
? Professional Linux/Unix Certifications
Other Skills:
? Former Pharma Experience
? German