We have a systems manager job position open at the Biocomputing Unit. Get to know it in this post!
Description
We are looking for a candidate with a background in Computer Science for the position of Junior Systems Management. You will be part of the team in charge of managing the computing infrastructure of the group, learning how public science development and compute infrastructures work. The tasks include assisting in the deployment and configuration of hardware and scientific software. Once here, you will also be participating in European and national projects related to cloud and open data technologies. The amount and heterogeneity of servers requires someone capable of thinking out of the box and exercise creativity to solve IT problems in complex scenarios.
Location: in person, UAM campus, Madrid
Background
INSTRUCT ERIC is the European Strategic Initiative in the area of Structural Biology. It is organized as a distributed infrastructure with “Instruct Centers” and the BCU hosts the “INSTRUCT Image Processing Center (I2PC)”. The BCU is well known in the area of 3D-EM, with over 200 publications in the area and large contributions to open-source scientific software, like Scipion, Xmipp and 3DBionotes. For further information go to i2pc.es and biocomputingunit.es webpages.
Required skills
- Upper cycle in Computer Science related matters (Spanish “FP superior”, BSc, MSc), Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or equivalent are also accepted.
- (specialties or mentions related to systems and networks management such as Computer Engineering/Systems administration appreciated)
- Scripting and orchestrating experience: Bash and Python scripts, YAML (Ansible and similar)
- Experience and commodity in Linux environments (HPC environments is a plus)
- Interest and/or experience in computer hardware and computer networks
- Medium level of proficiency in written and spoken English
Although not essential, we consider the following skills a “plus”:
- Experience in assisting open-source software development teams (GitHub, documentation, user support, collaboration tools…).
- Experience in Virtualization: Docker, Virtualbox
- Familiarity with the architecture and functioning of GPUs: NVIDIA CUDA, CUDA Toolkit, NVCC…
- Experience in Cloud (Amazon AWS)
Applying
Are you interested in our Junior Systems Manager job position? Send your CV and a letter of interest to blanca@cnb.csic.es.