| Location: | Heidelberg, Germany |
| Staff Category: | Staff Member |
| Contract Duration: | 3 years (renewable) |
| Grading: | 6, 7 or 8; depending on qualifications and experience |
| Closing Date: | 17 November 2020 |
| Reference Number: | HD01830 |
IT
Services operates and supports the IT infrastructure and services at
EMBL headquarters in Heidelberg and at the laboratory’s sites in
Barcelona and Rome. Within IT Services, the IT Operations team is
responsible for managing and developing the provision of large-scale IT
services from our high-performance data centres to support EMBL’s
science. We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Systems Engineer to join the team.
Your role
will include the following responsibilities:
- to manage and develop:
- EMBL’s private cloud infrastructure, based on OpenStack and Kubernetes
- our automated systems, services deployment and configuration tools
- our identity and access management systems
- our IT services health monitoring
- to provide an excellent support to our users, efficiently tracked and assuring highest quality of service and user satisfaction
- to continuously improve our provision of IT services and the support processes by jointly analysing IT requirements together with the EMBL user community and your team
You have
- a degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- experience with the cloud, both public (AWS) and on-premise (OpenStack, Kubernetes)
- familiarity with DevOps concepts (GIT, CI/CD)
- experience with configuration management and deployment tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Terraform)
- knowledge of Linux system administration and corporate software management
- advanced scripting skills in Perl, Python, Shell or others.
- understanding of standard protocols such as LDAP, SSO, IMAP, SMTP to debug related services
You might also have
- familiarity with federated authentication infrastructures and implementations
- experience with data centre virtualisation (VMware/KVM)
- basic IT Security knowledge
- German language skills as a plus
Why join us
- we offer you the opportunity to work with the latest technology and the exposure to a fast-growing big data environment, operating over 300 petabytes of science data and high-end computing across several centres including the administrative IT to support science at EMBL
- certified training and continued development of your professional and personal skills
- benefits linked to technological exchange and meeting IT teams across EMBL sites
- competitive salary and a comprehensive pension scheme; medical, educational and other social benefits, as well as financial sponsorship for relocation and installation for you and your family
- flexible and friendly, international working environment fostering creativity
- we are an inclusive, equal opportunity employer strongly committed to achieving gender balance
- to be part of one of the world’s highest ranked scientific research organizations and to commit to this joint effort to better understand the principles of life
What else you need to know
We
are Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences –
an intergovernmental organisation performing scientific research in
disciplines including molecular biology, physics, chemistry
and computer science. We are an international, innovative and
interdisciplinary laboratory with 1700 employees from many
nations operating across six sites, in Heidelberg (DE,
headquarters), Barcelona (ES), Hinxton near Cambridge (UK), Hamburg
(DE), Grenoble (FR) and Rome (IT).
The working language of the institute is English.
If you feel you have the right skills and experience, please apply online at www.embl.org/jobs!
Discover more on working with EMBL IT Services at embl.de/itservices.
The working language of the institute is English.
If you feel you have the right skills and experience, please apply online at www.embl.org/jobs!
Discover more on working with EMBL IT Services at embl.de/itservices.
