Cloud DevOps Engineer – Stfc Career Runcorn

Overview

Position Title:Cloud DevOps Engineer

Company: STFC

Location: Runcorn, UK

Job Description

SCD defines, develops and manages the underpinning scientific computing infrastructure used to provide an extensive range of national and international science projects including the GridPP Tier1 service for Particle Physics, the JASMIN super data cluster for environmental science, STFC’s central HPC cluster, a large in-house OpenStack cloud as well as computing support for STFC facilities such as the ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility, the Central Laser Facility plus the Diamond Light Source.

The extensive infrastructure we support includes both High Throughput Computing (HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC), extensive cloud and virtualization services, large capacity data storage resources and a range of general purpose scientific computing services.

Responsibilities:

• Be a senior member of the team responsible for installing, maintaining and supporting the data storage services and scientific computing resources managed by the Cloud Operations Group
• Take ownership and responsibility for specific sections of the infrastructure ensuring they run smoothly and meet their operational commitments
• Investigate, recommend and deploy new technologies, services and applications as required to enhance the service levels provided
• Act as a technical expert from SCD projects during interaction with the science communities to help understand, define and develop future requirements

Requirements:

• Experience in the use and system management of UNIX /Linux
• Experience in a programming or scripting language such as Python or Bash
• Managing a service platform to a high level of availability
• Ideally additional experience in multiple of:
• Multi-Petabyte storage solutions using object-stores or traditional POSIX filesystems
• Virtualisation and/or Cloud computing systems
• Managing large scale computing clusters
• Distributed or Grid computing, particularly using the UMD/OSG middleware stack
• System integration, particularly in large scale environments (>100s of systems)
• Expertise in Unix or Linux Operating Systems (S&I)
• Good written communication as demonstrated by the quality of the CV and application covering letter (S)
• Expertise in a programming or scripting language such as Python or Bash
• Ability to diagnose system faults and analyse problems (I)
• Ability to work in an IT environment delivering a high level of service availability (I)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team (I)