For our research activities and projects within LCSB and ELIXIR-LU, we are looking for a systems engineer to support our scientific IT infrastructures, including our virtual private clouds based on OpenStack and RHEV. In addition, the hired candidate will help with the development and setup of new state of the art solutions within our research activities. The candidate will need to research, design, and implement innovative IT solutions to enable our data integration and analytics platforms.

• Research existing technologies and contribute to technology, benchmarks, selection and methodologies to apply to new and ongoing research projects.
• Conceptually design innovative IT solutions within research projects.
• Engage in research activities, new approaches and IT solutions in ELIXIR-LU.
• Setup and provide support to ELIXIR-LU IT services.
• Provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, upgrade and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure in and for biomedical, translational, and clinical research.
• Become a key actor of continuous improvement and innovation within the group.
• Monitor performance, analyse and troubleshoot issues and outages/incidents.
• Assist with system backup/recovery services, system administration processes, firewalls, networks, storage.
• Maintain and monitor support information in ticketing systems and related tools.
• Work closely with other team members aiming for a high level of quality and user satisfaction.
• Write and maintain documentation for technical procedures.
• Assist in the procurement of in-house services via external vendors, if/when so desired.

• Higher-educationn computer science, engineering or in another field but with equivalent proven experience as cloud engineer.
• An interest in state-of-the-art technologies.
• Autonomous, dynamic, and curious.
• Proven experience with the following technologies:
• Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu), Linux scripting (shell / bash)
• OpenStack, Ceph, Keystone, ...
• Docker, Kubernetes
• RedHat Enterprise Virtualization / oVirt
• NFS / Samba administration.
• Good programming experience (Python, Perl).
• Experience with Puppet, Ansible, git, Icinga / Nagios, RedHat IdM, LDAP / AD, AWS, Azure or GCP will be considered an asset.
• Knowledge of modern web development technologies will be considered an asset.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate clearly the scientific and technical needs and to work within an interdisciplinary setting, communicating with other internal/external partners.

We offer

• A fully funded Cloud Engineer (Research & Development specialist) position with a competitive salary
• Participate in the building of state-of-the-art IT infrastructure to enable precision medicine.
• An opportunity to join the fast-growing Bioinformatics Core Facility group headed by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schneider at LCSB.
• An exciting international environment.

• Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract 36 Month
• Work Hours: Full Time 40.0 Hours per Week
• Location: Belval
• Starting date: asap
• Job Reference: UOL03671

Online applications should be addressed to:

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schneider

Head of the Bioinformatics core facility and head of the ELIXIR Luxembourg node

Applications (in English) should contain the following documents:

• A detailed curriculum vitae
• Cover letter mentioning the reference number
• List of infrastructure/software projects and/or publications
• Description of past experience and future interests
• Name and addresses of three referees

Early application is highly encouraged, as the applications will be processed upon reception. Please apply ONLINE formally through the HR system. Applications by email will not be considered.

The University of Luxembourg embraces inclusion and diversity as key values. We are fully committed to removing any discriminatory barrier related to gender, and not only, in recruitment and career progression of our staff.