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HPC/Linux Specialist

Eingestellt von Coopers Group GmbH

Gesuchte Skills: Linux, Unix, Python, Matlab

Projektbeschreibung

For our client, a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland, we are looking for a motivated and ambitious:

HPC/Linux Specialist

Project background:

Technical Operations identify specialized technology needs, providing agile and customized infrastructure and services. These deliver state of the art computing, enabling our scientists to be innovative, competitive and successful. We provide customized informatics consultancy, tools and services to our scientists. We interface with service providers, internal and external vendors to provide customized scientific leading edge informatics solutions.
The position will involve architecting, developing and maintaining our scientific computing platforms and working with our scientists on their application needs and translating this to infrastructure needs provided in partnership with our service providers

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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS - MUST HAVES:

- 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS - NICE TO HAVES

- 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

OTHER SKILLS - MUST HAVES:
- Senior level technical operational skills, such as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis
- Advanced English language skill is a must
- Scientific knowledge or awareness: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences
- Desirable understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Proactivity, with a clear ability to think beyond boundaries, take controlled risks and assume responsibilities
- 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 benchmarking
- User training and education experience
- Ability to work effectively within a team, including virtual teams
- Clear goal orientation and supportive of change
- Active open source contributor

OTHER SKILLS - NICE TO HAVES:
- German would be considered an advantage.
- Experience in a global organization, working in an international and multicultural environment is considered a valuable asset

START DATE: 19.02.2018
END DATE: 31.12.2019 (+ POSSIBLE EXTENSION)
WORK LOCATION: BASEL

Are you interested to work in this challenging position? Alessia Biassoli, Talent Resourcer, is looking forward to receiving your complete profile. Please send an e-mail (see below)

Projektdetails

  • Einsatzort:

    Basel, Schweiz

  • Projektbeginn:

    asap

  • Projektdauer:

    Till 31.12.2019 (end of Next Year)

  • Vertragsart:

    Contract

  • Berufserfahrung:

    Keine Angabe

Geforderte Qualifikationen

Coopers Group GmbH