Technical Consultant / Software Developer Job in Amsterdam, Netherlands

SURFsara supports researchers in the Netherlands and works closely together with the academic community and industry.

We offer an integrated ICT research infrastructure and provide services in the areas of computing, data storage, visualization, networking, cloud and e-Science.

Technical Consultant / Software Developer Job Description

SARA is looking for a technical consultant/scientific software developer (Adviseur/Wetenschappelijk programmeur) to help deliver high-quality scalable services for researchers in the Netherlands.

Your task will be to assist academic researchers in their use of the High Performance Computing Cloud infrastructure as is available at SARA. You will be working in the eScience and Cloud Services team, getting to know the ins and outs of the HPC Cloud infrastructure and be in direct contact with our academic users.

At SARA we facilitate science in the Netherlands and beyond. We are driven by our enthusiasm for our users and their research. We work closely together with researchers from High Energy Physics, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Astronomy, Engineering, and various other disciplines. Our users work with increasingly larger amounts of data which brings new challenges almost every day.

We are looking for a technical consultant with experience in eScience projects, Cloud computing, distributed computing and/or storage, who likes being close to research and likes working for and with people.

Technical Consultant / Software Developer Job Requirements

Requirements

• B.Sc. degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master’s degree preferred
• Excellent communication skills, ability to handle deadlines and to multi-task
• Ability to translate functional requirements into technical implementation
• Two years of related experience
• Understanding and experience with virtualization
• Experience with Cloud computing paradigms
• Comfortable with Linux and shell scripting
• Enthusiasm for science and scientists

• Deep understanding of Cloud computing and virtualization, Hadoop, or GPU computing and related concepts, such as scalability, performance, queuing, caching, and synchronization techniques
• Knowledge of data processing algorithms and data structures
• A vision on Big Data in science
• Demonstrated ability to publish and present your work on conferences, technical blog postings, or published books/papers

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