REF: 191203.2 Scientific application / infrastructure specialist for Linux research platform and HPC environment

Beschreibung

General
Start:
Duration: 2 years
Amount: 100%
Place: Basel


Tasks
• 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


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 (****)
• 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
• English fluently, German nice to have


Skills (nice to haves)
• 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
• German


Contact
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