Systems Engineer

Our client company was founded in 2006 as a spin-off from a Systems Pharmacology Doctor lab under the auspices of a leading academic center of excellence based in Barcelona.

They offer validated and cutting-edge computational methodologies with top market predictive performance. The company’s aim is to help the Biopharma industry fast-forward the process of bringing new medicines to market, speeding up drug discovery and development programs, and improving cost-efficiency and safety.

The Systems Engineer will join the Engineering/DevOps team of a rapidly growing BioTech.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining our next generation of high-availability clusters both edge and at various cloud providers (GCP or AWS), including features such as automated provisioning of network-attached block storage to satisfy persistent volume claims, usage reporting and in-cluster security policies.

• For edge work you will be responsible for all networking, storage and computer hardware provisioning and configuration to support LXCs or k8s.
• You will be responsible for creating and testing disaster recovery plans for: block storage/filesystems, network-attached storage (NFS and cloud-equivalents) and for S3-compatible storage.
• Your work in the backup/restore area will involve a working knowledge of maintaining PostgreSQL performance and consistency.

Expert level :

• Network attached storage administration
• Distributed storage (CEPH) and workload (Slurm)
• Directory administration (LDAP)
• Linux administration.
• Kubernetes management (both on-premises and in the cloud, kubectl + explain/defend your choice of other tools).
• LXC and LXD cluster administration.
• Backup/restore/redundancy strategies.
• Database infrastructure administration: tuning PostgreSQL and Clickhouse performance and fault-tolerance.

Proficiency level :

• Bash scripting
• Python
• Docker build
• Git (workflow: rebasing dev branches on fast-forward-only master prior to merge)
• PostgreSQL