Cloud Engineer, 2 years

Lunds universitet, MAX IV, Controls & IT

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 47 000 students and more than 8 800 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.

Experiments located at the MAX IV laboratory collect and process large amounts of data for scientific analysis.

For this purpose, MAX IV operates state-of-the art computational infrastructure, including HPC cluster resources, a Data Acquisition (DAQ) cluster and a high performance storage cluster, interconnected through an infiniband fabric. Our virtual server environment hosts most of the controls systems needed to operate the MAX IV beamlines and the accelerator.

In order to facilitate the migration of current controls applications into the cloud infrastructure as well as foster the development of cloud-native applications, we are looking for a cloud engineer acting as application expert for our scientific and controls software engineers.

Work duties and areas of responsibility
The successful candidate will work within the MAX IV IT Infrastructure team on delivering reliable and usable on-prem cloud infrastructure. Working together with other cloud system engineers, this position is focusing on, but not constrained to, providing cloud-native expertise to our development teams. Key functions include:
- Work with software developers in migrating applications to the kubernetes platform.
- Provide expertise to development teams in container and orchestration technolgógies.
- Collaborate with system engineers in the development and evolution of our kubernetes based on-prem cloud infrastructure.
- Participation in collaborative projects within MAX IV and other academic partners.

Requirements
- Expertise in container technologies (docker, singularity)
- Expertise in container orchestration (kubernetes, openshift)
- Experience with software development for kubernetes systems
- Solid understanding of the Linux operating system
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Fluent in English

Desirable
- knowledge of experiment control systems
- working in scientific environment

The successful candidate is creative, service minded, takes initiative and has the ability to cooperate and solve problems.

On call services may apply.

MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. It will receive up to 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

The ICT teams at MAX IV are placed under the Technical Division and deliver solutions to the whole MAX IV organisation in the areas of electronics, software, infrastructure and scientific data. This is a dynamic and highly challenging environment and requires close collaboration with the beamline staff in order to understand the needs and be effective in forming solutions. We are around 50 people in total who work in 4 domains in a well-organised and agile way. We hold values of lean management, knowledge spread, user autonomy, continuous improvement and flexibility as guiding principles for our work.

Type of employment	Temporary position
Contract type	Full time
First day of employment	As per agreement
Salary	Monthly salary
Number of positions	1
Full-time equivalent	100 %
City	Lund
County	Skåne län
Country	Sweden
Reference number	PA2020/2358
Contact	Artur Barczyk, +46-703 57 22 47
Union representative	OFR/S:Fackförbundet ST:s kansli, 046-222 93 62, st@st.lu.se SACO:Saco-s-rådet vid Lunds , 046-222 93 64, kansli@saco-s.lu.se SEKO: Seko Civil, 046-222 93 66
Published	10.Aug.2020
Last application date	31.Aug.2020 11:59 PM CEST

Cloud Engineer, 2 years - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Lunds universitet, MAX IV, Controls & IT