- Day-to-day operation of the secure infrastructure and of its services
- Constantly improving deployment, configuration and operation by automation at all levels following our Infrastructure-as-Code approach.
- Collaborate with the engineering and implementation of security measures, user workspaces, and new services
- Help our diverse community of scientists in using our computing infrastructure and collaborate within the team to guarantee smooth operations of the environment.
- Configure, deploy, maintain, and document scientific computing frameworks offered as a service (JupyterHub, RStudio, Shiny, etc.), with a focus on stability and performance.
- Strong experience with Linux systems administration, preferably in an HPC-based research environment
- Knowledge of virtualization platforms
- Experience with large-scale storage infrastructure (from design to implementation, day-to-day operation and benchmarking)
- Hands-on experience in automating complex, repetitive tasks using Bash or Python (script-based system management) and in using version control systems for configuration management (e.g. git)
- Experience in Datacentres technologies and trends such as Software Defined Infrastructure, Compute virtualization, Software Defined Storage and Software Defined Network
- Demonstrated experience in configuration management and application deployment systems (such as Ansible, MAAS, Terraform)
- Experience with core IT security technologies (firewall and SSH server configuration, key management, VPNs)
- Good knowledge of incident management, monitoring tools, process automation, fail-over, disaster recovery
- An aptitude for finding good solutions to complex IT problems, together with a "focused on the finished product" mindset.
- Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate with other IT specialists are necessary.
- Experience with service deployment based on container technologies (docker, kubernetes and container orchestration basics)
- Experience in operating and/or working with OpenStack
- Knowledge of HPC tools and technologies such as EasyBuild, Slurm, Singularity (apptainer)
- Experience with large-scale storage technologies such as CEPH
- Interest in in-depth HPC hardware environment design and tuning (storage, network, load balancing)
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ETH Zürich Zürich, Schweiz· System Engineer for ETH Biomedical Research IT Platform Leonhard Medthe Scientific IT Services of ETH Zurich (SIS, a section of the ETH central IT Services ) aims at bridging the gap between computational research and IT services. In doing so it provides a stimulating, flexibl ...
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ETH Zürich Zürich ZH, SchweizSystem Engineer for ETH Biomedical Research IT Platform Leonhard Med · the Scientific IT Services of ETH Zurich ( SIS , a section of the ETH central IT Services ) aims at bridging the gap between computational research and IT services. In doing so it provides a stimulating, f ...
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ETH Zürich Zurich, SchweizSystem Engineer for ETH Biomedical Research IT Platform Leonhard Med · System Engineer for ETH Biomedical Research IT Platform Leonhard Med · the Scientific IT Services of ETH Zurich (SIS, a section of the ETH central IT Services ) aims at bridging the gap between computational r ...
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ETH Zürich Zurich, Schweiz NebenberuflichSystem Engineer for ETH Biomedical Research IT Platform Leonhard Med · 80%-100%, Zurich, permanent · print Drucken · the Scientific IT Services of ETH Zurich (SIS, a section of the ETH central IT Services ) aims at bridging the gap between computational research and IT services. ...
System Engineer for ETH Biomedical Research IT Platform Leonhard Med - Zürich, Schweiz - IT Services
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Job description
The position will be part of a growing team of expert system engineers and system administrators that ensure engineering, development, and operation in production of Leonhard Med. Together with your team you will have the responsibility of the day-to-day operation of the secure infrastructure and of its services while, at the same time, constantly improving its operation by automation at all levels and updating its security features to keep pace with the latest standards. You will also be part of the engineering effort to scale the Leonhard Med infrastructure and its services to cope securely, effectively and efficiently with a wide spectrum of use cases at ETH and at the Swiss national level.
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The ability to communicate in English is a must (working language: oral and written).
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