Technical Operations Consultant

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.

Please check the requirements in detail below.

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)
+++ 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