Senior Scientific Platform Specialist

SENIOR SCIENTIFIC PLATFORM SPECIALIST - BASEL - 100%

Experis is the global leader in professional resourcing and project-based workforce solutions. Our suite of services range from interim and permanent recruitment to managed services and consulting, enabling businesses to achieve their goals. We accelerate organisational growth by attracting, assessing and placing specialised professional talent.

For our international client based in Basel, Experis is currently looking for a Senior Scientific Platform Speciliast to start on a new project.

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

General information:

* Start date: ASAP
* End date: 31.12.2018
* Work load: 100%
* Work location: Basel
* Remote: not possible
* Travel: not required

TasksHPC infrastructure components, infiniband networking; Parallel Filesystem (eg 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
* At least 10 years general Linux system administration skills: DevOPS approach: configuration management (eg puppet), automated build/release testmonitoring tools/frameworks (eg nagios, ganglia, elk); Scripting: Shell, python, Perl;

b) GENERAL SKILLS:

* Senior level technical operational skills (+7 years), 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
* Good communication and interpersonal skills; advanced English language skill is a must
* 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, working in an international and multicultural environment is considered a valuable asset
* Scientific knowledge or awareness - bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences; desirable understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts; active open source contributor

c) QUALIFICATIONS:

* Minimum Bachelor computer science or equivalent, ideally Masters.
* Professional Linux related certifications, qualifications and industry presentations/recognition.

Interested in this opportunity? Kindly send us your CV today through the link in the advert. However should you have any questions please contact Stéphanie Vogt.