Junior Application / Infrastructure Specialist
Junior Application / Infrastructure Specialist
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For one of our clients, specialized in the pharmaceutical area with HQ in Basel, we are looking for a Junior Application / Infrastructure Specialist with previous experience / know how in HPC Environment.
This is a challenging contracting position starting in January 2020 until the end of 2021 with extension possibilities.
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Support an HPC migration project moving workloads to shared platforms including on premise HPC, container orchestration platform (k8s) and public cloud offerings
- Contribute to HPC/Scientific workflow and job submission optimization activities
- Experience giving training courses and developing material on complex applications and platforms
- Work with operational team on delivery/support of the scientific Linux application environment
Requirements
- 1+ years of administering Linux HPC environments
- Experience of Linux build and packaging tools (Make, CMake, Easybuild, RPM, Yum)
- Proven experience working with installing and configuring scientific applications particularly on a Linux/Unix platform
- DevOPS approach
- Cloud technologies, infrastructure/platform as a service, AWS, Google, Azure
- Experience in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and root cause analysis
- Scientific knowledge or awareness - bioinformatics, cheminformatics, life sciences
- Knowledge of parallel programming techniques and tuning, openmp, mpi
- Knowledge of HPC cluster build and management tools (e.g bright, xcat)
- Knowledge of HPC infrastructure components, InfiniBand networking, GPUs
- Scripting: shell, python, Perl
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with advanced English
Nice to have:
- Desirable understanding of Computer Systems Validation and ITIL concepts
- Experience working with Parallel Filesystem (e.g. Lustre, GPFS) and Scale-out NAS (e.g. Isilon)
- Understanding of object storage, S3, swift
- Workload Management, queue configuration (e.g. SLURM, LSF, Torque)
- Virtualization and containerisation awareness, tools including Kubernetes, docker, singularity
- Big Data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark)
- Monitoring tools/frameworks (e.g. nagios, ganglia, elk)
- Programming skills in high level languages such as Java or C++
- Professional Linux/Unix Certification
Location: Basel
Start Date: 06.01.2020
End date: 30.12.2021
Extension: possible
Workload: 100%
If you are a result-oriented Application Specialist currently looking for a challenging new position that applies to your skills, then we look forward to receiving your application!
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