Position: Sr HPC Engineer
– BioInformatics
Location: fully REMOTE
Term: Full Time opportunity
Salary: DOE + Bonus + Industry’s best benefits
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Position Summary
The Senior HPC Engineer of High Performance Research Computing Center (HPRCC) is responsible for supporting the computational biology, genomics, informatics, mathematical oncology, metabolomics, proteomics, biostatistics and system biology programs.
This position is responsible for providing customized research support for high performance computing clusters, research servers and end user Bioinformatics and Linux based specialized support.
This position reports to the manager of HPRCC.
Key Responsibilities include:
Responsibilities:
· Responsible for supporting on premise research and research grade cloud environment for individual research programs.
· Responsible for maintaining an update to date common scientific software library between on premise and cloud environments
· Responsible for providing customized software environments and workflows based on individual researchers needs.
· Responsible for documentation of research computing environment and software offerings
· Works with research groups to optimize software programs for effective cluster use.
· Creates policies and procedures for system administration, software and hardware access
· Ensures compliance with industry cyber security and architectural standards
· Supports the development and execution of a research computing disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
· Provides strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of research information systems
· Participates in the identification, development and communication of new technology standards and best practices as appropriate
Technical Skills & Experience:
· At least 4 years of experience managing HPC and its software environments within a research environment with similar 24/7/365 high availability requirements.
· Experience with compiling, optimizing and debugging open source scientific code
Bioinformatics experience is a must (supersedes the HPC experience)
Experience in single cell RNA pipelines
· Experience with customized software environments for scientific workloads
· Experience with building compilers and core operating stacks.
· Experience with building computational clusters in cloud environments
· Experience in job management support tools
· Experience in application systems performance monitoring
· Experience in virtual machine provisioning and maintenance on premise and in cloud
QUALIFICATIONS
· Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Experience preferred.
· 4 years of work experience
Preferred education experience and skills:
· Bioinformatics Background
· Experience in Perl, Python, R, JavaScript
· Familiar with Bioconductor, Conda, CPAN and CRAN
· Experience with HPC schedulers (Slurm and Grid Engine)
· Experience with containers (Docker and Singularity)
· Experience with Ganglia and Naigos monitoring tools
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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