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

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.