Systems Administrator

We are seeking an experienced Systems Administrator to join the Systems Infrastructure Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. This position is in the Compute team which is responsible for EBI's central computing services.

You will be responsible for EBI's central computing services including HPC clusters, job scheduling and monitoring. These responsibilities include user support, troubleshooting, and both hardware and service maintenance and update, in order to keep the infrastructure at the highest levels of use and performance.

The EBI maintains clusters totalling 1,500 nodes which are used for production services and by several hundred developers and researchers. Additionally, EBI manages more than 60 PB of scientific data, which are mounted from different storage systems using multiple technologies such as NFS, GPFS and PANFS.

There will also be the opportunity to get involved in projects that offer opportunities to learn new skills.

The EBI is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and it is a world-leading bioinformatics centre providing biological data to the scientific community with expertise in data storage, analysis and representation. EMBL-EBI provides freely available data from life science experiments, performs basic research in computational biology and offers an extensive user training programme, supporting researchers in academic and industry.

Qualifications and Experience

You will have a degree in Computer Science or have equivalent work experience and the ability to work effectively in English. In addition you are required to have:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or other Linux) administration experienced
• the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• the desire to learn and keep up with technology advances

Any experience of the following is considered advantageous:

• IBM Platform LSF batch processing
• Puppet configuration management
• Nagios/Ganglia monitoring
• Python/Perl/Shell scripting
• FTP server administration
• Containerization technologies (OpenVZ, Docker)
• High performance filesystem client management (GPFS, PANFS, Lustre)
• Hadoop administration

Personal organisation, time management, and excellent communications skills are essential.

Benefits

EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive conditions and benefits appropriate to an international research organisation. The remuneration package comprises a competitive salary, a comprehensive pension scheme and health insurance, educational and other family related benefits where applicable, as well as financial support for relocation and installation.

We provide a dynamic, international working environment and have close ties with both the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

EMBL-EBI staff also enjoy excellent sports facilities, a free shuttle bus to Cambridge and other nearby centres, an active sports and social club and an attractive working environment set in 55 acres of parkland.

The initial contract is for a period of 3 years with the possibility of a fixed-term extension.

Application Instructions

We welcome applications irrespective of gender and appointment will be based on merit alone. Applications are welcome from all nationalities - visa information will be discussed in more depth with applicants selected for interview.

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Additional Information

Applications will close at 23:00 BST on the date listed above