Desired Skills and Experience
- Administration, monitoring, tuning and extension of the Linux-based HPC cluster (6000+ cores plus GPUs, 2PB GPFS), and connected systems, such as job queue (Grid Engine), storage (DDN)
- Perform root-cause analysis and fixing of errors and performance problems
- Plan and deploy patches, upgrades and configuration changes
- Monitor and adjust the queuing system
- Realize seamless data flow from sequencing and mass spectometry devices with scripting and monitoring
- Support virtualization and containerization of servers and workflows; work with MDC IT on topics such as networking, and data backup and archiving
- Contribute to user support and user documentation
- Contribute to evaluation of new technologies and planning and realization clusters extensions
- At least three years experience in professional Linux system administration required with excellent demonstrable skill set
- Proven ability to create versioned, well-structured configuration and deployment systems
- Ability to write technical and user-targeted documentation required
- Experience with CentOS, OpenLDAP, Ansible, Git, SGE, Ganglia, CheckMK, GPFS, ZFS, KVM are a plus but not required if you are willing to quickly learn these skills
- Team-oriented with good communication skills in German and English
- Willingness to keep on learning
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