Senior Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform)

Next Link Solutions is Looking for a Senior Scientific Platform Specialist (for Linux Research Platform) to work for a big pharma company based in Basel, Switzerland.

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.

Please check the requirements in detail below.

Department: Technical Solution Delivery (PXIA) = PREDi

General information:
Start date: 01.08.2017
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

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.

Nice to Haves:
+++ Desirable experience working with 1) installing and configuring scientific applications particularly on a Linux/Unix platform (eg Schrodinger, Moe, Bowtie, Gromacs, R, Python, Matlab, Topspin, Pipeline Pilot) and 2) also experience of Linux build and packaging tools (eg Make, CMake, Easybuild, RPM, Yum)
+++ Pharma 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

For more details please apply TODAY!