Software or DevOps Engineer at Danish National Genome Center

Would you love to develop and integrate new solutions for the development of personalized medicine in Denmark and across Europe? At the Danish National Genome Center we are establishing a world-class national High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure for Precision Medicine – and we are looking for a new engineer for our interdisciplinary team of ambitious and engaged colleagues.

About the Danish National Genome Center
The Danish National Genome Center’s primary task is to establish the foundation for the development of better diagnostics and more targeted treatments using Whole Genome Sequencing. The Center has a national responsibility to develop state of the art infrastructure to enable analysis on big biomedical heterogenous data.

One of the Danish National Genome Center’s main goals is to be at the forefront of new big data solutions in the healthcare domain. The Danish National Genome Center is working with high performance computing as a service (HPCaaS) and different types of infrastructure and cloud services. This include the full stack from network, servers, storage, applications, users and cross-cutting processes in a Linux software environment.

About the position
We are looking for a profile who have either worked as infrastructure or DevOps engineer – or a new graduate with a master’s degree in computer science or a closely-related field. You’ll be part of a small team within the Section for Health, Research and International Relations. The team is contributing to the center’s new infrastructure effort. You’ll be responsible for driving technical solutions from proof-of-concept to production. One of our core technologies is Nix; but don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar, you’ll have the time to learn.

On a day to day basis, you are expected to work collaboratively with the team to develop the center’s infrastructure. This will include evaluating technologies to solve technical challenges, deploying and maintaining core services, automating recurring tasks, reviewing code produced by other team members, and assisting other teams with their technical needs. You will also engage with end users (mainly researchers and public agencies) advising on how to use the infrastructure and develop customized solutions to key users. The position will also give you the possibility to participate in European projects.

Professional qualifications
You have ideally demonstrated expertise and experiences in:

• Infrastructure as code through a declarative approach e.g. Nix/NixOS – or a willingness to learn it
• Building solutions to complex problems from simple, existing technologies
• Git version control, and interacting with multi-user repositories (merge/pull requests and code review)
• CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery)

It would be a plus to have experience with or knowledge of some of the following:

• Strongly typed languages and functional programming
• Systems administration geared towards infrastructure
• Virtualization technologies
• Running infrastructure on bare-metal servers
• Networking topologies and design
• Data Protection by design and by Default
• Identity and access management solutions, ideally integrations with eID/MitID

Personal qualifications
Our ideal candidate:

• Is committed and takes initiative to reach a goal
• Is able to collaborate with others on large, complex projects
• Works well in a team, sharing knowledge and learning from others
• Is proficient in English at a professional level, both written and spoken. Basic Danish skills or an ambition to learn is a requirement.
• Keeps up-to-date with the latest technical advances and enjoys the development process. If you are an open source programmer, we would be interested in looking at your public contributions

Working at the Danish National Genome Center
We offer an interesting and challenging job in an international atmosphere with focus on the patient, research, innovation and clinical advice for the benefit of the surrounding community. We place emphasis on a high level of professionalism among our staff, so skills development is an integral part of our organization. We offer great flexibility in the position. Our official working language is Danish but a number of employees prefer to communicate in English.

The Danish National Genome Center is an organization under the Danish Ministry of Interior and Health and is located at Ørestads Boulevard 5, 2300 København S, together with Statens Serum Institute and the Danish Health Data Authority. The organization has approx. 40 employees.

Terms of employment
Terms will be based on the collective agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the relevant trade union. Classification will depend your academic qualifications and experience.

This full-time position is available as soon as possible.

You will refer to Lene Cividanes, Head of Health, Research and International Relations and work in close collaboration with a small project team and other relevant colleagues across the agency.

Further information
For further information about the position, you are welcome to contact Head of Health, Research and International Relations Lene Cividanes +45 21829219 or developer Christian Ravn [email protected]

Application and recruitment process
Click “apply” to send your job application with curriculum vitae and diploma / exam certificates.

First round of interviews is expected to be held Wednesday 5th or Thursday 6th of March and second round of interviews Friday 14th of March.

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Location: Ørestads Boulevard 5, København, Danmark