HPC and Infrastructure Engineer
About the position
Our infrastructure hosts Geoscientific research, software development, forecast post-production, data processing and weather data services. MET Norway provides in-house compute infrastructure for operational forecast post-processing, medium-scale models and research activities. The daily throughput of 77,000 jobs requires attention to scalability and reliability. 15 PB storage infrastructure holds about 880 millions objects. Storage and compute infrastructure is integrated with a 2D/3D remote visualization service. We also have Ceph- and Swift-based storage, and host OpenStack- and Kubernetes-based private cloud infrastructure.
As a central systems administrator in the IT infrastructure department, you will contribute to the planning and development of our infrastructure. You will be part of a team of highly technically skilled colleagues, delivering infrastructure that enables researchers to deliver climate and forecast services to the public. We are looking to fill one temporary position for two years.
Responsibility / work tasks
- Administer and deploy Linux-based HPC and parallel file system servers and clusters.
- Contribute to the deployment, configuration and management of interconnect and storage networks.
- Conduct installations of software releases, scientific codes, patches of the operating system, and third-party utilities with emphasis on overall system security.
- Collaborate with other team members to analyze, diagnose and respond to system problems and user questions in person, via email and ticket system.
- Automation of management routines.
- Monitoring and capacity planning.
- Data centre work, such as racking and installing servers, and maintenance.
- Possible participation in research activities.
- Migration and maintenance of legacy systems.
- 2nd/3rd line technical support.
Qualifications
Experienced in administering Linux servers and services:
- Practical knowledge of scripting languages, e.g. Python or Bash.
- Experience using tools to automate IT infrastructure, such as Ansible or similar.
- Higher education within IT or the natural sciences. Practical experience may compensate for a lack of formal education.
- Experience in the following points is an advantage:
- HPC job management systems, graphic processing units, interconnects, parallel file systems (Lustre or others).
- Managing virtualization solutions like OpenStack, Xen, KVM/libvirt or similar.
- Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
Languages:
English and Norwegian are the institute’s working languages. Security clearance might be desirable, and candidates who know or believe they cannot be security cleared are asked to inform about this in the application.
Personal qualities:
- You are a resourceful person who delivers with precision and has good analytical abilities.
- You like to work in a team and easily get along with others.
Conditions
- Technical challenges in a supportive, creative and technology focused environment.
- A working environment focussed on what benefits we provide to the community, sharing and openness.
- A family friendly personnel policy.
- Salary as senior engineer or head engineer (1087/1181) following state regulations, for the time being kr 490,600–694,400 per year, following qualifications. Especially qualified people will be considered for wages beyond this.
- Membership of the Government Pension Fund (Statens Pensjonskasse), which is one of the country's best pension schemes with mortgage loans and good insurance schemes.
- Central, modern offices at Blindern/Oslo Science Park, near the tram and subway.
- 6 months mutual probation.
Additional information
We emphasize diversity and therefore encourage everyone qualified to apply for a job regardless of age, gender, disability, national or ethnic background. MET participates in the state's effort to get more people with holes in the CV or impaired ability to work. Information on gaps in CV or impaired ability can be used for reporting purposes.
If any case an applicant does not wish to be registered on the public application list, the applicant will need to give a reasonable argued justification. Information about the applicant can still be published. If the wish to not be registered on the public application list is denied, the applicant will be informed prior to the disclosure.
Questions may be sent to IT infrastructure leader Arnstein Orten, arnstein.orten@met.no, phone: 91113950.
Om bedriften
About us
Modern meteorology requires handling and analysis of huge amounts of data, and presents complex and interesting challenges.
Since 1866, Norwegian meteorologists have been at the forefront of the development of the discipline, and today we are an internationally leading community.