Package Description
Full details on application.
Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).
Job Introduction
Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.
Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.
Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe.
Main Responsibilities
- Maintaining and monitoring HPC and Grid clusters availability and performance;
- Maintain and update both HPC (an High Performance Computing system made of 35 nodes dedicated to parallel processing based on MPI libraries) and its software components and Grid cluster;
- Provide a high level of support to users;
- Update technical documentation;
- Install, configure, customize new hardware;
- Upgrade software and operating system when requested, mainly RedHat and CentOS;
- Liaise with datacentre and Storage staff for hardware and storage issues and requests;
- Programming and OS knowledge:
- Thorough knowledge of Linux;
- Operating Systems on Clustered environments;
- Compilation of OpenSource software;
- Compilers such as C++;
- Scripting in python;
- Knowledge of R.
- The contractor is required to give high-level support to the scientific users of clusters in terms of:
- Ability to understand users requirements and problems, and propose appropriate software solutions
- Ability to support developers with issues related code and parallel programming concepts;
- Support users in testing new tools and checking compatibility.
Successful Candidate
- University Degree in Computer Science or similar levels of work experience;
- 10 year experience in Linux system administration;
- The ability to Communicate efficiently in English both spoken and written;
- Proactive approach to work , should suggest solutions and share ideas;
- Be able to work in an international environment;
- Should be able to work as part of a team.
Please note that the closing date for application is on 31/03/2017.
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Important
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About the Company
Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 60,000 employees worldwide.
Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies - We work alongside EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency, where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.
What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.
Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.
If you share our values then join with over 60,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you