Linux Systems Administrator

IRB Barcelona is seeking an enthusiastic Systems Administrator with experience in the management of Information Technology infrastructure in scientific research environments to join its Information Technology Services Department.
The Information Technology Services (ITS) Department provides IT services to the whole organisation and develops digital transformation projects with the aim to facilitate the operations of the organisation and the accomplishment of the goals of its research community. To fulfil this mission, the ITS Department offers a broad spectrum of IT services, solutions and support, particularly high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure for research groups belonging to the Structural and Computational Biology Programme.

Duties: 

• To administer a heterogeneous group of systems, both standard infrastructure and HPC systems.
• To Install and configure new hardware and software.
• To troubleshoot any reported problems.
• To be responsible for documenting the configuration of the systems.
• To evaluate new technologies and solutions that can be later included in the catalogue of services offered to the research groups.

Profile: 

Must Have – Required

• Experience: 2 years of experience in a similar position in a similar institution
• Knowledge:
  • Bachelor degree or higher in Informatics, Telecommunications Engineering, or similar
  • Networking basic knowledge
  • HPC queue systems Knowledge (SGE, Slurm)
  • Linux operating systems, including scripting and programming proficiencies (Shell, Perl or Python)
  • Common server hardware architectures including servers (CPU, bus, memory), SANS, disk arrays, network hardware
• Skills:
  • Excellent writing and verbal communications skills in English and Spanish
  • Strong organizational, planning and multitasking capacities
  • Teamwork skills
  • Ability to work under tight deadlines with minimal supervision

Desirable

• Knowledge:
  • HPC GPUs node administration knowledge
  • Web server administration (Apache, NGINX,…)
  • SSL certificate administration
  • Containerization (Docker, Singularity, Kubernetes,...)
  • Fortran, C, and C++ Compilers
  • Gaussian, Matlab, Schroedinger and scientific software in general
  • HTML5, CSS3, PHP, and Javascript
  • NoSQL database administration (MongoDB, Cassandra or similar)
  • Statistical computing (R)
  • Storage system administration,  traditional storage systems (NetApp FAS), as well as SDS (Ceph, BeegFS)
  • Management of public or private Cloud infrastructure   (OpenNebula, Openstack, AWS, Azure..)
  • Configuration of monitoring systems such as Nagios and Ganglia
  • Configuration of LDAP in Linux environments
  • MPI, CUDA, and OpenMP
  • BigData technologies such as Hadoop