Cloud & Database Engineer

Proclinical are recruiting for a Cloud & Database Engineer to join a Cloud & Database Engineer to join a biotech organisation. This role is on a permanent basis and is located in Frankfurt.

Please ensure that you are eligible for working in the location without any sponsorship or relocation assistance.

Responsibilities:

• Guide the execution and configuration of scalable AWS infrastructure, which involves compute and storage configurations.
• Work alongside interdisciplinary teams to form seamless interfaces for data acquisition from sequencing facilities, public data sources and clinical samples.
• You will migrate current pipelines, guaranteeing that version control and acknowledging possible challenges, for example: data volume and environment dependencies.
• The ideal candidate will develop and uphold both production and development settings, integrating and working with crucial tools such as Nextflow, Conda, and Matlab.
• Responsible for automating procedures, containerising applications, and growing interfaces to foster a dynamic and effective computational ecosystem supporting research teams.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Key Skills and Requirements:

• Educated to a degree level in a computer science, bioinformatics or similar field.
• Demonstrable experience in HPC and cloud infrastructure management.
• Know-how of Amazon Web Services, which involves AWS parallel server, VPC networking, S3, EC2, RDS, EFS, etc.
• Expertise on AWS clous resources management and optimisation.
• Knowledge of Terraform and containerisation technologies such as Docker/Singularity.
• Acquaintance with SLURM and workflow management systems such as Nextflow.
• Competent in scripting languages such as Python, SQL, etc.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Github.
• Works well with others n a team.
• Communication skills both verbally and in writing.
• Able to think analytically with the capacity to resolve issues.

If you are having difficulty in applying or if you have any questions, please contact Tania Maphoso at t.maphoso@proclinical.com

Proclinical is a specialist employment agency and recruitment business, providing job opportunities within major pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.

Proclinical Staffing is an equal opportunity employer.

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