HPC Systems Administrator Bioinformatics Core Computational Biology USA-NY-New York

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The Bioinformatics Core at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City (Manhattan) is seeking a Systems Administrator to work as part of the team supporting the computational resources used by the Computational Biology Center and MSKCC staff. This includes monitoring system and network performance, configuration and support of HPC systems and applications, account administration, system optimization, and user support.

Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Operating Systems: Linux (CentOS, SLES), Mac OS X
Basic Systems Administration: Linux installation, maintenance, upgrade, backup, NFS, TCP/IP networking
Experience with Linux/UNIX server and HPC cluster hardware setup and configuration, performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting
Experience working with highly complex system implementations and organizational processes
The ability to deploy new technologies
Effective communication and documentation skills

Desirable Qualifications:
Experience with LDAP, Nagios, Apache HTTPd, Tomcat, iptables, rsync, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SGE or Postfix
Experience with parallel and clustered file systems
Experience scripting or programming in Python, Ruby or Java
Familiarity with bioinformatics and computational biology
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform

MSKCC is the world’s oldest and largest private institution devoted to prevention, patient care, research and education in cancer. The Computational Biology Center pursues computational biology research projects and the development of bioinformatics resources in support of cancer genomics research. More information is available at http://cbio.mskcc.org/bic

To apply send CV or resume to: [email protected]

MSKCC is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.