Center for Humanities Computing (CHC) is looking for a new employee to oversee, develop and implement applications for research at the DeiC Interactive HPC facility. DeiC Interactive HPC is an interactive digital research environment built to support the needs of researchers for both computing and data management making complex digital technology accessible to all users working with both open and sensitive data.
The provided applications covers a broad area of types and systems, e.g., Jupyter Lab notebooks, RStudio, VS Code, apps for genomics, engineering, agent based modelling, etc. Applications in DeiC Interactive HPC are containerized in Docker environments and orchestrated by a Kubernetes cluster.

The position is available for the period 1 August 2023 or soon thereafter to 31 December 2024  - we are committed to creating a permanent position for the right person.

The position includes the following areas of responsibility:

• Develop, implement and deploy new container apps for research
• Evaluate and design container apps in collaboration with researchers
• Take active part in developing the app portefolio at DeiC Interactive HPC
• Participate in back office support for DeiC Interactive HPC.

Qualifications
We seek experts with most of the following qualifications:

• Broad range of software skills in the relevant areas such as:
  • container and virtualization technology (i.e., Docker and Kubernetes)
  • cloud computing
  • complex systems debugging
  • knowledge of distributed computing technologies
  • scientific software design
  • scientific workflow tools
• Strong background in Linux systems
• Relevant programming skills (e.g., shell scripting and Python);
• Ability to work productively both independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• An interest and willingness for learning new methods and technologies in a fast moving and higly skilled work environment
• Relevant and documented education or experience working with the above technologies and fields
• Experience with devops practices (e.g. git and github, continuous integration and deployment, software documentation)
• Good verbal and written communications skills in English.

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