Postdoctoral Researcher/Research Associate
1 week ago
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time fixed-term position as a Postdoctoral Researcher/Research Associate - Data Platform Engineer with the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC) at the University of Galway, Ireland.
This position is funded by the European Union (EU) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and is available starting immediately for a 2-year period to work from ICHEC offices in Dublin or Galway.
Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)
ICHEC is Ireland's national centre for High-Performance Computing (HPC) and data platforms and services provided to academia, industry and public sector organisations. ICHEC provides platforms, services and expertise to develop efficient solutions based on technologies including HPC, data management, AI, high performance data analytics, Earth Observation, quantum computing and cybersecurity across several sectors including environmental sciences, life sciences, healthcare, agriculture, energy, financial services and ICT.
ICHEC works in close partnership with several national and international researchers, enterprises and public authorities for joint R&D, skills development, and provisioning HPC and data services to accelerate their digital transformation and green transition. For more details, reach out to our Centre's Associate Director, Dr. Venkatesh Kannan, or visit www.ichec.ie.
Salary: Postdoctoral Researcher/Research Associate salary scale €44,846 - €57,332 per annum, (subject to the project's funding limitations), and pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts.
The default position for all new public sector appointments is the 1st point of the salary scale. This may be reviewed, and consideration afforded to appointment at a higher point on the payscale (subject to the project's funding limitations), where evidence of prior years' equivalent experience is accepted in determining placement on the scale above point 1, subject to the maximum of the scale.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 17:00 (Irish Time) on 9th December 2024. It will not be possible to consider applications received after the closing date.
*Please review full job description for further details and essential requirements.
The role will involve working in close collaboration with the broader ICHEC team as well as with national and international academic, industry and public sector partners. The work and duties will entail the following aspects:
- Develop data platform services on which a diverse set of data and compute workflows and applications can be developed in turn;
- These platforms and services will provide a coherent and standardised set of tools and services for federating distributed data management systems across Ireland and Europe, particularly across disciplines in climate, environmental, marine renewable energy, biodiversity, agriculture, water, hydrology and life sciences;
- Collaborate with national and international research/industry partners on the deployment and testing of emerging hardware and software platforms;
- Work in conjunction with members of the ICHEC Infrastructure Group in building, securing and operating new platforms to a high service level;
- Any other duties assigned commensurate to this level of post.
The successful candidate will be self-driven and collaborate with other partner organisations in the MARINERG-i and Co-Centre consortia from Ireland and Europe.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Essential skills:
- A Masters with 4 years' relevant professional experience after primary degree or a PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience in designing, building and deploying backend web applications and services.
- Experience in software systems design and architecture, including API development and collecting and acting on stakeholder requirements.
- Experience with DevOps development practices including build automation, automated testing, CI/CD, containers and container orchestration. A quality and continual improvement-focused mindset is required.
- Experience writing and maintaining technical documentation including wikis, technical reports and architecture diagrams.
- Experience with frontend web development and associated frameworks, e.g. Angular, React or similar.
- Experience with data management, storage, database technologies, e.g. S3, Postgres, MySQL.
- Can provide a sample of previous code contributions – e.g. via a public code repository.
- Comfortable working in Linux environments.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Researchers at University of Galway are encouraged to avail of a range of training and development opportunities designed to support their personal career development plans. University of Galway provides continuing professional development supports for all researchers seeking to build their own career pathways either within or beyond academia. Researchers are encouraged to engage with our Researcher Development Centre (RDC) upon commencing employment - see HERE for further information.
• We reserve the right to re-advertise or extend the closing date for this post.
• University of Galway is an equal opportunities employer.
• All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment.
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