Scientific Computing Platform (SCP) is AstraZeneca's state-of-the-art computing environment to pursue todays and tomorrows in-silico challenges. It strongly focuses on a platform concept, building capabilities and services around central building blocks. At its heart it uses 3 compute environments, a classical InfiniBand/Slurm HPC cluster, an OpenStack private cloud as well as various public cloud for elasticity and scale. To exploit these resource pools most optimally, SCP is deploying strong DevOps tooling and cloud native technologies. It seeks to adjust and adapt according to changing requirements and follow the science.

The engineers and architects in the SCP team are key to continuously deliver and support this critical capability. We are operating the SCP as a single global team with shared responsibilities. We are looking for a highly motivated, ambitious and independently working Scientific Computing engineer to join our global team.

You will be joining an agile and hardworking team of technologists who share excitement for High-Performance & Big Compute, modern technology stacks and their application in science to change the life of patients.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engaging in various activities spanning daily operations and development, exciting technology exploration and strategic project delivery.
• Own components of the platform, drive its operational excellence, prioritise the development backlog and craft the roadmap.
• Whether your interest is more operations or development focused, classical HPC or cloud computing, in hardware or applications, our team is operating the whole stack. Everyone on the team takes ownership for our success.
• You will become a trusted partner to our Science community, ensuring that we deliver technology on the highest standards to enable and push their work to the next level.
• Being able to translate partners' needs into efficient solutions and applying engineering excellence to make science successful, will be your daily reward.

MANDATORY SKILLS:

• Hands-on experience operating, crafting or engineering large-scale computing environments, such as HPC, HTC or BC, preferably Life Sciences (e.g. Pharmaceutical Industry, BioTech)
• Hands-on experience working in a DevOps teams and using agile methodologies and provide scientific software support for end-users: configuring, installing, tuning and maintaining such software.
• DevOps way of working with a strong enterprise service mentality, problem solving, excitement for technology and interest in accelerating science
• Configuration management (e.g. ansible, salt, puppet) and technology frameworks (e.g. easybuild) in IT operations
• Scripting and tool development for HPC & DevOps style platform operations using Bash and Python
• Solid background as a user or administrator of Linux systems

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Operation and configuration of public cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Managing a virtualized private cloud environment (e.g. OpenStack)
• Container technology (e.g. LXD, Singularity, Kubernetes)
• Proven development experience with a variety of programming languages, tools and technologies (Java/C++, Python/Ruby/Perl, SQL, AWS)

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what's next!

• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you.

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AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.

Date Posted
02-ene-2024

Closing Date
01-feb-2024

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.