Senior Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform)

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

Important:
Advanced knowledge of Linux system administration, HPC technologies and storage systems, Scripting and DevOPS approach to platform administration, scientific application build and tuning are all key requirements.

Tasks & Responsibilities:
. Ensures 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.
. Contributes to the concept, planning and execution of projects.

Qualifications:
. Minimum Bachelor computer science or equivalent, ideally Masters.
. Professional Linux related certifications, qualifications and industry presentations/recognition. 
. Customer experience 
. German speaking 
. Programming skills in high level languages such as Java or C++ are a plus 
. Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP

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