Senior Linux Platform Specialist, Basel, 18.9.2017 - 31.12.2018, Feedb

For a project at a client in Basel, we are looking for a SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION/INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST FOR LINUX RESEARCH PLATFORM AND HPC ENVIRONMENT.

BACKGROUND:

Technical Operations (TO) identify specialized technology needs, providing agile and customized infrastructure and services. These deliver state of the art computing, enabling our client's scientists to be innovative, competitive and successful. TO provides customized informatics consultancy, tools and services to the scientists. TO interfaces with service providers, internal and external vendors to provide customized scientific leading edge informatics solutions.

The position will involve architecting, developing and maintaining scientific computing platforms and working with the scientists on their application needs and translating this to infrastructure needs provided in partnership with service providers

PURPOSE:

The position will involve working with the scientists on their LINUX application needs and translating this to core infrastructure needs provided in partnership with the service providers.

REQUIRED SKILL SET:

Knowledge of Linux system administration, scientific application build and tuning, high performance computing (HPC) and storage systems, Scripting and DevOps approach to platform administration.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

- Start date: 18.09.2017
- End date: 31.12.2018
- Extension: Would be possible, but needs to be approved.
- Work load: 100%
- Work location: Basel
- Remote: not possible
- Travel: not required

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 - ALSO IMPORTANT:

- 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

NEXT STEPS:

Interviews are planned from 4th September 2017.

If you meet the requirements, if you are available and interested, please mail your CV in Word format and your desired rate ASAP BUT NOT LATER THAN 29.8.2017.