Expression Of Interest - Research DevOps Engineers

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Detail information about job Expression Of Interest - Research DevOps Engineers. Terms and conditions vacancy

Location: Clayton Campus

Employment type: Full-time

Remuneration: $85,538 - $93,819 pa HEW Level 07 (plus 9.5% employer superannuation) OR $96,230 - $106,221 pa HEW Level 08 (plus 9.5% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day
• Enjoy the freedom to discover something new
• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions 

There’s a certain feeling you get from working at Monash University. It’s the feeling that you’re a part of something special. Something significant. So if you’re looking for the next chapter in your career, it’s here. You’ll be given the opportunity to challenge yourself, build on your skills, and make a significant contribution to a workplace that’s filled with energetic and inspiring people. Talent thrives here – and so do truly satisfying careers.

The Opportunity

Monash eResearch Centre (MeRC) is a University commitment to accelerating research by applying advanced computing and information technology to important research problems. MeRC is a leader amongst international eResearch initiatives, supporting over 2000 researchers by operating a number of projects including the MASSIVE high performance computing facility, the R@CMon node of the Nectar Research Cloud, petascale data storage, and rich online research data environments. Our staff deliver impact: we help visualise how the human brain is connected, we design high performance computing systems, we write data processing workflows for one-of-a-kind microscopes, and we write smart software for interrogating unique data collections. MeRC is driven by the quality and passion of our staff, and the partnership with the researchers we work with. For more information about the work we do, please visit our website: www.monash.edu/eresearch.

eSolutions leads and directs the provision of IT solutions to the University. eSolutions is currently leading substantial technological, service and organisational reform in its role as a single IT function for the University that operates according to the following vision: We partner with our customers to provide complete solutions enabling the Monash academic mission and delivery of the strategic agenda. For more information on the work that we do, please visit our website: www.monash.edu/esolutions.

We are currently seeking expressions of interest for multiple Research Devops Engineers to join the exciting and innovative Monash eResearch Centre to assist in developing, building and maintaining our Research Centre for Australian researchers. Presently, we are specifically looking for Applicants with demonstrable experience and skills suited to contribute to one or more of the following four projects:

1. Drone facility and analysis virtual laboratory – Focused on building a pipeline of digital infrastructure  (many written in Python) associated with obtaining and rapidly processing large datasets from drones.
2. Epidemiology Modelling – Focused on designing, engineering and maintaining high-quality, innovative and fully performing software applications (many written in Python) being developed by the Epidemiology Modelling Unit.
3. Devops of research safe havens – Focused on supporting the safe haven agenda of health and medical researchers by developing and operating a layer of increasingly autonomous deployments of web-scale IaaS
4. The Characterisation Virtual Laboratory (CVL) and instrument workflows – Focused on helping instrument facilities to connect the national research cloud, and develop rich online remote desktops environments for data analysis and visualisation.

For more information on the above projects, please visit our website.

Within these projects, your key duties will include but not be limited to:

• Design, code, test and install software solutions in a range of languages during various stages of projects
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders in building, configuring and deploying innovative research systems
• Provide expert, industry based advice to researchers, relating to specialist systems
• Keep up to date with new technologies and changing industry trends to provide current and relevant solutions to researchers

Candidate Requirements:

Essential:

• A strong background in IT/ Science where you have demonstrated strong analytical thinking as well as problem solving skills.
• Experience related to IT security standards such as ISM, and/or web-scale methodologies such as micro-segmentation
• You will have demonstrable experience using SQL and relational databases management systems (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Competency with Python or similar programming languages, such as R, Matlab and Ruby. Strong understanding and practical use of test automation principles and patterns.

Desirable:

• Experience across multiple platforms such as Linux, Windows, Mac
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure Deployment tools such as Salt, Puppet, Chef and Ansible
• Experience with CI/CD processes and Devops tools like Jenkins, GIT.
• Experience with cloud and container technologies like OpenStack APIs, Docker and container orchestrators like Kubernetes/Docker Swarm
• Experience within a customer-facing environment

If this sounds like a position that suits your current career focus we look forward to hearing from you.

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

How to apply:

To submit your expression of interest, please send your resume and covering letter to [email protected]. To preview the position descriptions for these opportunities, please follow the link below: https://www.monash.edu/jobs/jobs-at-monash/phd-expression-of-interest-fellowship-casual-opportunities

Closing date:

Wednesday 22 August 2018, 11:55 pm AEST