Desired Skills and Experience

  • Establish a reusable deployment, management and monitoring methodology in an OpenStack environment for scientific workloads
  • Automate bioinformatic pipelines and other workflows for cancer genome analysis
  • Manage the data lifecycle & security
  • Train other users in the use of the cloud-based workflows
  • Experience of configuration & management of Linux systems to meet the needs of large scale, high throughput applications;
  • Experience of communicating and working with expert technical users (e.g. in a science community);
  • Demonstrable experience deploying & managing workloads in virtual machines or containers on any of the following;
  • OpenStack
  • AWS
  • Google Compute Platform
  • Azure
  • Or equivalent cloud platform
  • Experience in working in large scientific projects, especially in the field of (cancer) genomics
  • Scripting languages (Perl, Python)
  • Git