[BBLISA-jobs] The Broad Institute- Senior Systems Analyst Career Opportunity in Cambridge

[Steve Downing]

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST, BROAD INSTITUTE, CAMBRIDGE, MA

The Broad Institute is redefining the boundaries of science and medicine 
with an interdisciplinary model designed to meet today's most critical 
biomedical challenges.  Here you will find an intense, exciting 
environment and a firm commitment to continuously invest in cutting edge 
technology.  At the Broad we are developing the new tools that will 
enable scientists to begin unlocking the mysteries of genomics.

The Broad Research IT infrastructure comprises a 4000-core computing 
cluster, several hundred application and compute servers---both physical 
and virtual---and a NAS environment hosting more than 4PB of data. 
Spanning three physical data centers, this infrastructure supports an 
active research community of more than 1000 people.

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY

This position will serve as a senior technical resource to the 
production data-generation "platforms" and scientific computing 
community within the Broad Institute. In this platform support role, the 
individual will be primarily responsible for the design of the systems 
infrastructure supporting the large-scale generation, management, and 
analysis of chemical and biological data deriving from multiple 
technologies. To achieve this, the individual must have the ability to 
understand the informatics organizations' application and lab 
environment at all levels, including hardware, operating systems, 
application servers and web interfaces, connectivity to backend 
databases, etc. As liaison to the IT operations team, this position is 
also responsible for maintaining an excellent working relationship at 
all levels of the groups being supported. The person in this position 
must be able to understand and translate the current and future 
requirements of the data-generation platforms into systems solutions, 
and must act as an advocate for that organization within the Application 
and Production Support Group, making sure issues are resolved in a 
timely and effective manner.

The Broad IT infrastructure comprises a large Linux-based blade farm, a 
number of special-purpose (e.g., large memory) computing and application 
servers, and nearly ten petabytes of SAN and network-attached storage 
representing multiple technologies.

B.S. or similar degree
. 7 years professional experience as administrator of Linux/UNIX systems 
(SAGE level IV)
. Professional experience as administrator of windows server systems 
highly desired
. Familiarity with Oracle database administration and integration highly 
desired
. Background or education in science, especially chemistry or biology, 
highly desired
. Demonstrated ability to manage longer-term project work in an 
interrupt-driven environment
. Demonstrated initiative in identifying what needs to be done and 
carrying it out
. Demonstrated communication skills both with individual users and 
within a team environment
. The following demonstrated skills and experiences are required:
. Productive knowledge of one or more common scripting languages 
(python, perl, bash, tk, etc.)
. Productive knowledge of one or more programming languages
. Experience with configuration and management of high-throughput 
compute environments (particularly Grid Engine)
Internal Description :

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES

. Plays technical leadership role in design of IT systems and service 
implementations in support of scientific computing
. Interacts with bioinformatics staff to ensure that the computing 
infrastructure properly supports informatics needs
. Leads investigations into new technologies and vendors that enhance 
computing systems
. Prototypes and evaluates new technology and solutions
. Automates routine repeated tasks through scripting or other means
. Manages major implementation projects
. Provides highest level of support on technical computing issues to end 
users and developers as needed
. Other tasks as required by manager

The Broad Institute is an equal opportunity employer.

To find out how rewarding it can be to work at the Broad Institute, 
check out this video:

http://www.broadinstitute.org/files/sections/about/video/broadVideo/broadVideo.html

Please respond directly to me, Steven Downing, at 
downing at broadinstitute.org
Apply online at : www.broadinstitute.org/careers  (Requisition #405)

Thank you!

Steve

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Steven Downing
Contract IT Recruiter
The Broad Institute of MIT&  Harvard
T: 617-714-7437
F: 617-714-8993
7 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
downing at broadinstitute.org
http://www.broadinstitute.org/careers

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