Systems Administrator at University of British Columbia / British Columbia Cancer Agency (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Desired Skills and Experience

• Maintenance and configuration of high performance computing environments
• Deployment and maintenance of web applications/services in Linux environments
• Development of HPC infrastructure using cloud computing services, and migration of existing on-site data analytics to the cloud
• Unix support for lab personnel
• Maintenance of distributed file systems
• Minimum of 2+yrs work experience
• Experience with scientific high performance computing environments and solutions (e.g. Oracle Grid Engine)
• Experience with software and package installation and maintenance on Linux systems
• Experience deploying and maintaining web applications/services in Linux environments
• Strong verbal/written communication skills and willingness to work in a team
• Undergraduate degree or technical diploma in computer science or information technology preferred
• Professional programming experience in a commercial software development environment preferred
• Experience building and integrating back-end web services (using JSON, AJAX, REST)
• Working experience with Java and Maven
• Knowledge of Nginx or other webservers
• Familiarity with Python