The Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide. The EPFL employs 6,000 people supporting the three main missions of the institutions: education, research and innovation. The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of 16,000 people, including over 10,000 students and 3,500 researchers from 120 different countries.

System Engineer (storage focus) W/M

Your mission :

The EPFL Blue Brain Project (BBP), situated on the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland, applies advanced neuroinformatics, data analytics, high-performance computing and simulation-based approaches to the challenge of understanding the structure and function of the mammalian brain in health and disease. The BBP provides the community with regular releases of data, models and tools to accelerate neuroscience discovery and clinical translation through open science and global collaboration.For our Core Services team, we are looking for an experienced
System Engineer (W/M) with a modern, ambitious mind to participate in the team’s daily DevOps work. We guarantee that no day will be the same nor will you be bored as you will be working with state of the art HPC hardware and modern software: we use e.g. OpenStack, Openshift, Ceph, ELK, Jenkins, Gerrit, Puppet, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Slurm and many other technologies to provide our researchers with modern computing infrastructure
Main duties and responsibilities include :

While you’d be contributing to the daily DevOps work of the Core Services team, emphasis in your work would be on handling the development and operations of BBP’s parallel filesystems (GPFS/Spectrum Scale), backups (TSM) and other storage solutions (e.g. Ceph, NetApp). Duties would include e.g. configuration and optimization for performance, defining policies for data transfer, developing data sharing services, improving data lifecycle management and handling daily operational tasks (system monitoring, incident handling, backing up data).
Your profile :

• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science - or similar


• Experience working in a collaborative and multi-cultural environment


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral


• Fast learner, eager to expand your domains of expertise


• Proven ability to work both independently and in team-based environments


• Fluent communication in English (written and spoken)

What we require from you:

• Excellent knowledge of Linux (e.g. RedHat/CentOS, Ubuntu)


• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, shell)


• Proficiency in configuration, provisioning and CI tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Git, Jenkins)


• Experience with storage (e.g. GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Ceph, NetApp) & backup systems (e.g. TSM)


• Track record of operating production services in various computing environments

What we count as your advantage:

• Experience with datacentre networking (IB, Ethernet)


• Exposure to cloud and container technologies (e.g. Openstack, OpenShift, Singularity)


• Experience with compute & data centre infrastructure

We offer :

• An internationally visible research project using supercomputers together with cloud solutions


• A dynamic, inter-disciplinary and international working environment


• An opportunity to get your hands dirty with new technologies as they emerge

Start date :

As soon as possible
Term of employment :

Unlimited (CDI)
Work rate :

100%
Duration :

CDD (1 year , renewable) / CDI, (negotiable)
Remark :

Only candidates who applied through EPFL website or our partner Jobup’s website will be considered.apply online