(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
- BSc or MSc. in
bioinformatics, computational biology or computer sciences
with significant bioinformatics experience
- Essential Knowledge and
Professional Experience
- At least 2 years
of professional experience with a similar role
- Experience in
cloud computing
- Experience in data
management APIs and most common bioinformatic data sources
and formats
- Experience in
database design and management (SQL and noSQL):
MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite or similar; MongoDB,
Elasticsearch, Cassandra or similar
- Experience with
advanced software packaging procedures
- At least 2.5 years
of professional experience on programming languages
ecosystems such as C++, Perl, Python, PHP and/or Java
- Vast experience
working with Unix/Linux systems
- Additional Knowledge and
Professional Experience
- Experience in
modern authentication/authorization protocols
- 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
- Experience on
workflow managers such as Galaxy, Nextflow or similar
- Experience on
developing project technical specifications
- Competences
- Ability of
understand scientific literature, and software documentation
- Ability to
communicate scientific results
- Ability to work
independently
- Ability to
represent the team in international project meetings
- Used to work under
pressure under strict deadlines
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