Senior Scientific Platform Specialist

Job ID: 310214778
Job date: 2017-05-17
End Date:

Company : Bechtle Steffen Schweiz AG 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
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.

Must Haves:

We decided to split the must haves in a), b) and c) to make it easier for you to understand the skill set.

a) TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• At least 7 years of advanced experience working with large scale Linux/HPC environments

• Knowledge of HPC cluster build and management tools (e.g bright, xcat); HPC infrastructure components, infiniband networking; Parallel Filesystem (e.g. 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 (e.g. puppet), automated build/release test & deployment (e.g. jenkins, git); monitoring tools/frameworks (e.g. 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 (e.g.

+++ Schrodinger, Moe, Bowtie, Gromacs, R, Python, Matlab, Topspin,

+++ Pipeline Pilot) and 2) also experience of Linux build and packaging

+++ tools (e.g. Make, CMake, Easybuild, RPM, Yum) Roche 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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Additional Info:
• 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

Please note that we can only consider applications from candidates with a swiss working permission or EU citizenship. All applications must include a CV, otherwise they will be disregarded.

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