Senior Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform) (m/f)

Basel  ‐ Onsite
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Description


We are looking for a
Senior Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform) (m/f)

Reference: -en
Start: asap
Duration: 20 MM+
Place: Basel-City
Branch: Herstellung von pharmazeutischen Spezialitäten und sonstigen pharmazeutischen Erzeugnissen

Your tasks:
  • Ensure 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
  • Assist with scientific application and data analysis tool set build, installation, configuration, maintenance and advanced tuning
  • Contribute to the concept, planning and execution of projects


Your qualifications
  • Strong experience with large scale Linux/HPC environments; professional Linux related certifications, qualifications and industry presentations/recognition
  • Knowledge of HPC cluster build and management tools (e.g. bright, xcat); HPC infrastructure components, infiniband networking; Parallel Filesystem (e.g. 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
  • General Linux system administration skills regarding DevOPS approach (configuration management (e.g. puppet), automated build/release test & deployment (e.g. Jenkins, Git)); monitoring tools/frameworks (e.g. Nagios, Ganglia, Elk) and scripting (Shell, Python, Perl)
  • Senior level technical operational skills, 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
  • 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 and with working in an international and multicultural environment is considered a valuable asset
  • Scientific knowledge or awareness – bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences; understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts is desirable; active open source contributor
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, ideally Master's


Your advantages:
  • A very renowned company
  • Fascinating, innovative environment in an international atmosphere



Skills:
- Software developer
- Administrator
Start date
ASAP
Duration
20 MM+
(extension possible)
From
Hays AG
Published at
10.04.2018
Contact person:
Kerstin Werner
Project ID:
1535139
Contract type
Freelance
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