IT Administrator / Scientific Programmer
The post-holder will be responsible for installation, maintenance and administration of the IT infrastructure of the research group ‘Quantitative and Theoretical Biology’. The tasks include planning the infrastructure, installation and configuration of Linux operating systems, installation and configuration of software. The successful candidate will also support the research group by the development scientific software and user-friendly interfaces to software developed in-house.
The position is offered in the context of the German Excellence Initiative which promotes outstanding research at German universities. CEPLAS is a joint effort of University of Cologne, HHU Düsseldorf, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and Forschungszentrum Jülich. Researchers of these institutions are pursuing inventive strategies for sustainable plant production (www.ceplas.eu).
Job description: The successful candidate will work in the research group ‘Quantitative and Theoretical Biology’ (75%) and the ‘Centre for Advanced Imaging’ (25%). A central task is to administer and maintain the computing infrastructures. This involves communication with the central computing facility at HHU, regular installation of security updates, purchasing new hardware and software, overseeing functionality of the internal communication tools (slack, Wiki, etc.) and in general staying in close with the group members and discuss their specific computational requirements.
Your profile:
Experience in IT-Administration (Hard- and software)
Experience in the Administration of Unix/Linux operating systems
Knowledge in IT security
Programming skills (e.g. Python, C++, Julia, etc.)
Reliability and Responsibility
Good communication skills in German and English
Payment is according to the German civil servant pay scale TV-L E11. The position is permanent.
Applications from disabled persons are welcome. Disabled persons with equal qualifications will be given priority. Applications from women are expressly welcome. Women with comparable qualifications will receive particular consideration, unless another applicant displays compelling reasons to prefer this person.
Please send letter of application, CV, publication list, transcripts, and letters of recommendation electronically as one PDF document to Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh (oliver.ebenhoeh@hhu.de) who may also be contacted for further information.
We wish to recruit as soon as possible.
Interested candidates please contact Oliver Ebenhöh
There are currently no other open positions @ QTB.
However, the situation may change in the future. People interested in working with us are invited any time to contact us and send motivation letters and CVs.
We also support candidates who wish to acquire their own funding.
