Dear all,
At our bioinformatics company The Hyve we are looking for multiple new colleagues to complement the team. The System Administrator job description is listed below, but please find all our open positions at
https://thehyve.nl/the-hyve/working-at-the-hyve/.
Thank you for sharing!
Best regards,
Ward Weistra
System Administrator
Job description
The Hyve is a young, innovative and fast growing company employing software engineers, bioinformaticians and data scientists. We are dedicated to developing software and data management tools to support scientists in life sciences and healthcare R&D with open source software, open data and open standards.
We maintain a growing farm of Cloud servers as part of our professional open source software hosting and service contracts. Our clients include top universities, hospitals, and a number of international pharma and food companies.
If you are an experienced system administrator looking for a varied role, then this is an excellent opportunity to join The Hyve. As system administrator you are responsible for keeping the infrastructure operational. You are trustworthy and reliable. A service oriented problem solver. A team player and excellent communicator with developers, managers and clients.
Tasks:
- Set up and configure new servers
- Maintain servers
- Security, availability and vitals monitoring
- Backup management
- Application deployment automation
- Application support: problem diagnosis, configuration changes, assist with code changes (i.e. bug fixes)
- Network infrastructure configuration
- Cloud infrastructure configuration / scripting
- Performance monitoring and optimization
Required are:
- Linux System administration (Ubuntu, RedHat, main focus: command line tools)
- Deployment automation / configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, Vagrant)
- Networks (TCP/IP, VPN, SSH tunnels, etc.)
- Website hosting (Apache, SSL certificates, etc.)
- Database configuration (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
- Personality and ability to learn new technologies
- Fluency in English (oral and written)
- Based in the Netherlands (or willing to relocate)
- Proven experience with system and/or application security
Desired are:
- Puppet configuration management
- Experience in scaling applications (Java/Scala backends) and databases (PostgresDB, MySQL, MongoDB)
- Hadoop stack experience (especially Spark, Parquet, HDFS)
- Technical support for Mac and Windows computers
- Remote access tooling (Citrix, RDP, etc.)
- Git and Github (see https://github.com/thehyve)
- Hypervisors (OpenStack APIs, especially Nova, VMware, etc.)
- Knowledge of ISO27001 or similar information security management standards
- Fluency in Dutch
We offer:
We offer a 32-40 hours workweek, a competitive salary and a pleasant working environment with young and bright colleagues.
More information?
Marinel Cavelaars, Manager Services
Jojanneke Blaak, HR Officer
