100%The University of Basel is the oldest university in Switzerland, it counts over 12'000 students and 4'300 researchers in 7 faculties active in domains from humanities, economy to natural sciences. sciCORE is the center for scientific computing at the University of Basel and one of the technological platform of SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. The main mission of sciCORE is to support scientists at the University of Basel and associated institutes in research domains with high computational demands.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is a non-profit organization federating 70 Swiss research and service groups of experts in bioinformatics. SIB's 800 scientists join forces to empower advances in life sciences and health by providing life scientists and clinicians with state-of-the-art bioinformatics resources, services, expertise, and Training.
The sciCORE team operates a large-scale scientific HPC environment consisting of a Linux cluster with ~8000 cores (including GPUs), ~5 PB storage (IBM Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS), virtualization environments (XenServer) for internal management and hosting of web-accessible scientific services (e.g. SWISS-MODEL, SwissRegulon, ...).
sciCORE is also one of the infrastructure nodes of a national network coordinated by SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics to support biomedical-research projects.
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To reinforce our team in Basel, Switzerland, we are seeking a HPC Linux system administrator. Your position
With the support of our team, our new collaborator will:
Help scientists in using our computing infrastructure and collaborate within the team to guarantee smooth operations of the environment. (Our community of users has very diversified interests and computational skills. An open mind is essential in this role.)
Contribute to the configuration and maintenance of the HPC environment, and adapt it to the current needs of the research community
Take over the maintenance of our scientific-software stack (EasyBuild)
Maintain the core set of web services offered by sciCORE (git, RStudio/Shiny, Atlassian suite, data management systems, service management systems, database servers, ...)
Support research groups offering scientific services as web-based applications (design support, configuration and deployment of VMs adapted to the application)
Collaborate to the implementation of security measures and services in our biomedical IT research environment (including logging and monitoring)
Participate in relevant technical meetings with our partners at University of Basel and at SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Your profile
Essential
Masters in computer sciences or equivalent
Strong experience with Linux systems administration, preferably in a research environment
Knowledge of HPC management with tools such as Ansible, EasyBuild, Foreman, XenServer, slurm (or equivalent)
Hands-on experience with script-based system management (bash, Python) and in using version control systems for configuration management (e.g. git)
Hands-on experience in deploying and supporting complex web services: application and management services (e.g. monitoring, logging)
Experience with core IT security technologies (firewall and SSH server configuration, key management, VPNs)
Motivated to support a very diverse community of users
Desirable
Experience with container technologies (Docker, Singularity)
Experience with GPFS and BeeGFS
Experience with network configuration (TCP/IP and Infiniband)
Experience with service deployment in OpenStack environment
Interest for in-depth HPC hardware environment design and - tuning (storage, network, load balancing)
Interest in surveying, prototyping and deploying innovative technologies, such as filesystem-level encryption, HDFS, virtualization technologies
Ability to communicate in English is a must (working language: oral and written), German is a strong plus
We offer you
A highly interdisciplinary work environment with challenging tasks
A management working on agile principles
Work within a team of experienced and highly motivated system administrators
Opportunity to work and gain experience with cutting-edge computing technologies, from hardware to management tools
Opportunity to be actively involved in the evolution of the HPC infrastructure design
Application / Contact
If you are interested in this challenging and highly interesting position, please submit your application including CV and letter of motivation through our online portal by clicking the "Apply" button.
For further information, please contact scicore@unibas.ch
The position will remain open until filled.www.unibas.chApply
