(bio-)informatician back-end engineers (RE12) *Context And Mission* The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) is the major bioinformatics platform in Spain, and the Spanish representative in the European bioinformatics infrastructure ELIXIR. INB is fully oriented to complete a solid integration with International Bioinformatics infrastructures including specifically the ELIXIR consortium. *Key Duties* * Design, implement and document communication channels for data sharing honoring data ownership, and security * Contribute to the development of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for various research projects at the Life Sciences Department * Manage and support users of the INB computational resources, including computational equipment, databases, and software infrastructure * Develop, document and maintain software for the integration and biological data, following the guidelines of ELIXIR * Contribute to the management of data within the current projects * Maintain communication with ELIXIR platforms, communities, and management, participate in their regular meetings and discussions * Contribute to supervise junior members at the INB/ELIXIR-ES units *Requirements* * Education o BSc or MSc. in bioinformatics, computational biology or computer sciences with significant bioinformatics experience * Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience o At least 2 years of professional experience with a similar role o Experience in cloud computing o Experience in data management APIs and most common bioinformatic data sources and formats o Experience in database design and management (SQL and noSQL): MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite or similar; MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra or similar o Experience with advanced software packaging procedures o At least 2.5 years of professional experience on programming languages ecosystems such as C++, Perl, Python, PHP and/or Java o Vast experience working with Unix/Linux systems * Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience o Experience in modern authentication/authorization protocols o Experience on the development, generation and use of software containers e.g. Docker, Singularity and/or rkt, as well as their orchestration using docker compose, kubernetes, ansible and/or similar technologies o Experience on workflow managers such as Galaxy, Nextflow or similar o Experience on developing project technical specifications * Competences o Ability of understand scientific literature, and software documentation o Ability to communicate scientific results o Ability to work independently o Ability to represent the team in international project meetings o Used to work under pressure under strict deadlines *Apply here: *https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/97lsinbre12 http://bsc.es/disclaimer