Desired Skills and Experience

  • overall: support the research program of the Meyer group and coordinate corresponding Linux system admin work with the BIMSB Bioinformatics Platform headed by Dr. Akalin
  • develop, test, install and configure new scientific software and computational analysis pipelines integrating various data sources and programs
  • set up and maintain web-servers for Bioinformatics applications
  • convert new and existing software and analysis pipelines into stable software packages for Linux distributions, e. g. for official release and for use on high-performance multi-user compute cluster
  • provide written and oral documentation of work including oral presentations of work
  • strong interest in Bioinformatics research
  • excellent oral and written communication skills in English
  • bility to meet deadlines and to work independently as well as as part of a team
  • excellent programming skills in C++, Java, R
  • excellent programming skills in a scripting language (Perl and/or Python)
  • basic knowledge of statistics
  • experience establishing shared software profiles using reproducible builds (e. g. Guix) and packaging software from source (.rpm, .deb)
  • experience deploying software on different settings, in particular on shared-user high-performance clusters
  • experience in working with, installing and managing linux machines
  • experience in setting up web-servers or proxy (e. g. Apache) and in automated system deployment and linux configuration management (e. g. Puppet)
  • experience in Bioinformatics research, in particular analyzing high-throughput sequencing data
  • experience in algorithm design
  • working knowledge of network storage, hardware, file system management, backup and recovery
  • experience working in an international environment and interdisciplinary research setting
  • oral and written communication skills in German (considered a plus, but not essential)
  • essential: BSc or MSc in Computer Science or Bioinformatics/Computational Biology or another science discipline with a strong focus on devising and employing computational methods
  • essential: a minimum of 2 (Msc) or 3 (BSc) years of experience as scientific programmer
  • desired: Red Hat Certified Engineer or Ref Hat Certified System Administrator
  • letter of motivation (1 page max)
  • CV including relevant experience
  • university and other relevant certificates
  • full contact details of 2 or more referees