Senior Scientific Platform Specialist

SENIOR SCIENTIFIC PLATFORM SPECIALIST (FOR LINUX RESEARCH PLATFORM)

Role:
For one of our clients we are looking for a Senior Scientific Platform Specialist who will involve working with the clients scientists on their Linux application needs and translating this to core infrastructure needs provided in partnership with their service providers.

Main Tasks:
-Responsible for the delivery of the scientific Linux application environment.
-Responsible to support the HPC platform, Linux systems including laboratory environment
-Have to manage scientific application and data analysis toolset build system
-Should be able to contribute to HPC/HTC workflow and job submission optimization activities
-Responsible for contribution of the concept, planning and execution of projects.

Technical skills:
-Should have at least 3 years of experience in administering Linux HPC environments
-Should have good experience of Linux build and packaging tools (Make, CMake, Easybuild, RPM, Yum)
-Must have a 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.

Required skills:
-Good experience in senior level technical operational skills, such as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis.
-Good scientific knowledge or awareness: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences
-Should have a desirable understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts
-Strong communication and interpersonal skills
-Should have a Proactivity, with a clear ability to think beyond boundaries, take controlled risks and assume responsibilities and experience in global organization
-Must have an excellent customer orientation and delivery focus with good end user perspective
-Must have a good experience in fast changing environments where solutions are deployed and retired at high pace.
-Should have a good problem solving attitude
-Should have good experience in writing application and platform documentation
-Should have very good experience in performing platform and application benchmarking
-Should have user training and education experience
-Should have a good ability to work effectively within a team, including virtual teams .
-Must have clear goal orientation and supportive of change
-Should be an active open source contributor

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.

Education:
Diploma in IT or equivalent qualification

Languages:
-English: fluent (spoken
-German would be considered an advantage

REFERENCE NO.: 917218NC
ROLE: Senior Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform)
INDUSTRY: IT
LOCATION: Basel und Region
WORKLOAD: 100%
START DATE: ASAP
END DATE: 31.12.2019 (extension possible but needs approval)

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