Computer Systems Engineer (User & GRID), Closes 24 Feb

Overview

For our activities in the European Space Agency, we are currently seeking to employ a highly motivated and enthusiastic Computer Engineer with extensive knowledge of GRID & UNIX support both for System and User support.

The Science Archives and Computer Engineering Unit (SRE-OE) within the Science Operations Department (SRE-O), has the overall responsibility for developing, designing, deploying, operating and maintaining scientific archives and for computer support for all science projects at ESAC.

Within this unit, the Computer Support Group (CSG) is providing computer support to all projects located at ESAC (European Space Astronomy Centre,). This currently covers the ISO Data Centre including the Akari team, the XMM-Newton and Integral Science Operations Centres, the Herschel Science Centre, the GAIA Operations team, the Planck Science Office, the Lisa PF team, the Solar System Operations division and the Science Archives Team.

The scope of the present work package specifically excludes ESA corporate informatics infrastructure services (office automation, network, terminal servers, Lotus Notes, LAN and communications), which are provided and subject to separate Service Level Agreements (SLA).

The SRE computer environment at ESAC contains a number of systems dedicated to science operations and archive activities; Linux and Sun Solaris, Macintoshes, PC for Office Automation activities and some OpenVMS machines; these being connected to networks organized by functions (operational, office and development, external services, GRID and administration networks).

The Computer Support Group is also maintaining the ESAC GRID computing environment (with Globus and Glite middleware), used for project data processing, daily science analysis tasks by user. The external GRID computing environment is connected to the European EGEE infrastructure.

The main computer environments:

• Globus and Glite GRID computing infrastructure

• Virtual Infrastructure

• Storage NAS/SAN infrastructure

• Linux workstations (mainly RedHat Enterprise Linux, some Suse)

• Main servers (SUN Solaris and Linux Enterprise type)

• PC with Windows XP

• Macintoshes with Mac OS X

• Various other hardware peripherals (printers, scanners, )

Task

As the Computer System Engineer the following areas of support are:

GRID related activities:

• Installation, configuration, integration, operations, maintenance and upgrade of Globus and Glite GRID middleware infrastructure

• Support users to adapt their computing tasks to the GRID infrastructure

UNIX (LINUX and SOLARIS), Macintosh and PC System management:

• Installation, configuration, integration and setting up of new machines with appropriate operating systems and layered software

• Administration and operation management of computer systems

• Installation and configuration of new disks and other devices and new users accounts.

• User support (mainly scientists and engineers)

• Handle the mail aliases and mail distribution list.

• Handling, checking and modifying backups

• Definition, implementation and maintenance of computer operators procedures

• Issues of documentation and technical reports

Contact with hardware and software suppliers:

• Definition of hardware/software needs and quotation requests for new purchases and maintenance contracts

• Locking hardware incidents calls and following the call history.

• Assisting technician when on site

Others:

• Installation and maintenance of storage SAN/NAS infrastructure

• Installation and maintenance of Virtual Machines

• Installation and maintenance of compute clusters

• Interface with external ESA corporate informatics infrastructure service providers

• Design of network setup requirements and follow up of implementation

• Request of new network connections

• Installation and Maintenance of printers, scanners,

Job type: Full-time

Industry: Information Technology

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