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Junior Application / Infrastructure Specialist

Location: Basel, Switzerland
Sector: C#
Job Type: contract
Salary: Negotiable
Reference: BBBH114961

Junior Application / Infrastructure Specialist

Experis IT is Europe's leading IT recruitment agency. We are dedicated to connecting talented individuals with Business opportunities across a number of professional sectors, with IT being at the heart of our operations.

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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