Desired Skills and Experience
- Collaborate with bioinformatics scientists, systems administrators, software engineers, users, and stakeholders to define requirements and specifications for data analysis workflows, accessing and managing scientific data, and data presentation;
- Perform data migrations between internal systems, as well as to external sites;
- Work with internal and external users to suggest and define data locations and organization;
- Monitor and report data usage;
- Track and report on the status of large data transfers;
- Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality;
- Analyze performance and recommend storage solutions by running weekly usage reports;
- Help troubleshoot any existing issues by investigating data flows;
- Automate processes;
- Improve documentation of changing data practices.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience;
- 3 Years Linux experience;
- Python and bash scripting experience;
- Ability to work with colleagues of various backgrounds (e.g. software engineering, project management, computational biologists, IT);
- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work directly with users to understand their needs and translate those into action plans and system improvements;
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced, start-up like environment.