Beschreibung
Are you looking for an interesting and challenging project in Basel,Switzerland?
If yes, this is the right opportunity for you!
Do you feel comfortable working in an international team?
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NextLink Solution, a Swiss IT Consultancy Company that has been providing both IT services and IT staffing to major customers for the past 20 years, has an excellent opportunity that can take your career to the next level.
22 month contract opening for an HPC migration project
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
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.
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 (eg puppet), automated build/release test & deployment (eg jenkins, git).
Cloud technologies, infrastructure/platform as a service, AWS, Google, Azure.
Other Skills:
Experience working with Parallel Filesystem (eg Lustre, GPFS) and Scale-out NAS (eg Isilon).
Understanding of object storage, S3, swift.
Workload management, queue configuration (eg 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 (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++.
Professional Linux/Unix Certifications.
English mandatory and German is nice to have