Infrastructure Consultant - Linux - Application - Pharmaceutical - Eng

INFRASTRUCTURE CONSULTANT - LINUX - APPLICATION - PHARMACEUTICAL - ENGLISH - BASEL - SWITZERLAND

NextLink is having an existing position as an Infrastructure consultant for global projects in Basel, Switzerland.

Purpose: The position will involve working with our scientists on their Linux application needs and translating this to core infrastructure needs provided in partnership with our service providers.

Required skill set: Knowledge of Linux system administration, scientific application build and tuning, high performance computer (HPC) and storage systems, Scripting and devops approach to platform administration.

General information:
- Preferred start date: 26.03.2018
- Latest start date: 02.04.2018
- End date: 31.12.2019 (end of 2019)
- Extension: Would be possible, but needs to be approved.

Main 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 (at least 2 of them):
- 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 (at least 3 of them):
- 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

For a chance to work in Switzerland as an INFRASTRUCTURE CONSULTANT please call me or send me your CV as soon as possible!

Leila Benabdallah
IT sourcing specialist
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