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<font face="Arial Unicode MS">SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST, BROAD INSTITUTE,
CAMBRIDGE, MA<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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face="Arial Unicode MS">OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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B.S. or similar degree<br>
• 7 years professional experience as administrator of Linux/UNIX
systems (SAGE level IV)<br>
• Professional experience as administrator of windows server systems
highly desired<br>
• Familiarity with Oracle database administration and integration
highly desired<br>
• Background or education in science, especially chemistry or biology,
highly desired<br>
• Demonstrated ability to manage longer-term project work in an
interrupt-driven environment<br>
• Demonstrated initiative in identifying what needs to be done and
carrying it out<br>
• Demonstrated communication skills both with individual users and
within a team environment<br>
• The following demonstrated skills and experiences are required:<br>
• Productive knowledge of one or more common scripting languages
(python, perl, bash, tk, etc.)<br>
• Productive knowledge of one or more programming languages<br>
• Experience with configuration and management of high-throughput
compute environments (particularly Grid Engine)<br>
Internal Description : <br>
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CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES<br>
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• Plays technical leadership role in design of IT systems and service
implementations in support of scientific computing<br>
• Interacts with bioinformatics staff to ensure that the computing
infrastructure properly supports informatics needs<br>
• Leads investigations into new technologies and vendors that enhance
computing systems<br>
• Prototypes and evaluates new technology and solutions<br>
• Automates routine repeated tasks through scripting or other means<br>
• Manages major implementation projects<br>
• Provides highest level of support on technical computing issues to
end users and developers as needed<br>
• Other tasks as required by manager<br>
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The Broad Institute is an equal opportunity employer. <br>
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To find out how rewarding it can be to work at the Broad Institute,
check out this video: <br>
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Please respond directly to me, Paul Rescigno, at
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(Requisition #405)<br>
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Thank you!<br>
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Paul Rescigno
Sr. Recruiter Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
7 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142
617-714-7162
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