Employer: Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI) Uganda
Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda
Application Deadline: 1st Aug 2014
Duties and Responsibilities:
•Investigate and analyse complex and/or strategically important IT issues, leading a small team of other specialists to define, develop and implement optimal leading-edge solutions.
•Offer expert advice and guidance to the informatics community within the MIC, enabling others to work more independently and productively.
•Oversee the development and introduction of specific solutions ensuring that user needs are fully identified and met within agreed timelines and that appropriate skills transference and training takes place.
•Develop effective relationships with and a sound understanding of the needs of users to ensure that the IT infrastructure resource is effectively deployed to meet scientific priorities.
•Recruit, manage and develop a team of subordinate systems administrators to facilitate the activities of the UMIC.
•Ensure that the network grade and quality of service meet performance targets through monitoring and initiating changes for improvement.
•Oversee the administration of Service Level Agreements
•Ensure adherence and compliance with the computing policy with emphasis on ensuring software and data security and integrity using soft and hard solutions.
•Plan and implement business continuity efforts for the various centre’s information systems.
•Plan and implement system expansion, upgrades and improvements.
•Build, nurture and grow relationships and collaborations with external organisations and suppliers to exchange technical expertise and awareness of new developments.
•Setup and maintain a high-performance computational cluster based on Linux
•Setup and maintain a high-throughput distributed network file system (such as Lustre)
•Setup and maintain reliable/redundant network storage (e.g. using NFS)
•Investigate and resolve technical problems that arise with the above systems rapidly.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
•The applicant should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
•Possess an advanced degree in a relevant subject (MSc or equivalent)
•At least three years of relevant experience
•Acknowledged expertise in a range of operating systems including Unix, Linux and networking systems
•Past experience in very large scale IT systems management
•Substantial experience designing and implementing high performance IT and networking architectures
•Advanced degree-level understanding of bioinformatics/biology and computing
•Past exposure and experience in providing a high quality customer-focused IT consultancy service
•Demonstrable expertise in building and debugging bioinformatics application code
•Past relational database administration experience
•Excellent track record in scripting language e.g. python, perl
•Possess the ability to effectively explain technical issues to non-technical users
•Ability to support and train other IT staff
How to Apply:
All candidates should send their applications including copies of academic qualifications, curriculum vitae and names plus telephone contact details of three (3) referees should either be addressed to:
The Human Resources Manager,
MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Uganda Virus Research Institute,
P. O Box 49
Entebbe, Uganda
or send by email: recruitment@mrcuganda.org
NB: Only short listed candidates will be contacted for interviews
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