The
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Computing
Systems Analyst to analyse, develop and implement systems to ensure ILRI’s
research computing satisfies the needs of scientists, uses the most up-to-date
technologies and achieves international standards for data sharing, archiving
and management. This is an international appointment reporting to the Head of
the Research Methods Group (RMG) and the Program Leader for Animal Biosciences.
ILRI
works to enhance the roles livestock play in pathways out of poverty in
developing countries. ILRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium, a global
research partnership of 15 centres working with many partners for a food-secure
future. ILRI has two main campuses in East Africa and other hubs in East, West
and Southern Africa and South, Southeast and East Asia.
CGIAR is
a global agricultural research partnership for a food-secure future. Its
science is carried out by 15 research centres that are members of the CGIAR
Consortium in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations.
Key responsibilities:
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Design and lead implementation of the strategy for research
computing infrastructure and support, keeping up-to-date with changes and
advances relevant to ILRI’s research activities.
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Establish and maintain robust systems for backup of user and
application data on the research computing platform.
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Keep up-to-date with applications and services relevant to ILRI’s
research activities.
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Manage the installation, configuration and maintenance of
scientific applications on the research computing platform.
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Take the lead in establishing and maintaining secure and robust
systems to support research data storage, processing, display and
distribution.*
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Communicate with researchers concerning updates, opportunities,
requirements and changes made to the research computing systems.*
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Develop more effective ways of using and configuring applications
and make them available for use across the ILRI campuses.*
*In liaison with ILRI’s ICT
team
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Manage the “Research Computing Systems” team within RMG.
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Mentor and assist Bioscience Directorate & Biosciences East
and Central Africa (BecA) team members with infrastructure for sequence data
capture, processing, storage and analysis.
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Mentor and assist the Animal Biosciences program in making genomic
analysis software and hardware available.
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Support Linux systems administration in the Knowledge Management
& Information Systems (KMIS) team.
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Maintain and deploy source code customizations to the CGIAR DSpace
institutional repository at ILRI
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Contribute to the alignment / development of knowledge and data management
systems in other CGIAR centres.
Requirements:
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An MSc in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems or a
BSc with comparable experience.
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At least 5 years relevant experience managing Unix systems.
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Significant experience in management of high-performance computing
cluster environments, including design and development of systems.
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Significant experience in a scientific computing environment,
preferably bioinformatics – applied research preferable.
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Experience in the provisioning and management of virtual machines.
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Experience with scripting for automation, batch processing, etc.
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Knowledge of relational databases and database-driven
applications.
Post location: The position is based at ILRI’s
Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
Position level: The position is
Research Associate level (4A) dependent on qualifications and experience.
Duration: 3 years with the
possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance and continued
funding.
Terms of appointment: Base salary from USD 36,000
per annum depending on skills and experience.
ILRI
offers a competitive international remuneration and benefits package which
includes: 15% Pension, Medical insurance, Life insurance and allowances for:
Education, Housing, Relocation, Home leave, Annual holiday entitlement of 30
days + public holidays.
*Benefits
and salary are tax free subject to compliance with tax regulations of country
of citizenship.
Applications: Applicants should provide a
cover letter and curriculum vitae; names and addresses (including telephone and
email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s
professional qualifications and work experience to be included in the curriculum
vitae. The position title and reference number: REF: CSA/RMG/10/13 should
be clearly indicated in the subject line of the cover letter. All applications
to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com/ on
or before 31 October 2013.
ILRI is an equal opportunity employer. Suitably qualified women
and developing country citizens are particularly encouraged to apply.
