Data Centre Specialist

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Through our constant dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established leading end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 170 countries serving more than one third of the world’s population.

With 20+ sites across Europe and 2000 researchers, Huawei’s European Research Institute (ERI) oversees fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning across our network of European R&D facilities. 

For our Zurich Research Center we are looking for a Data Centre Specialist.

Key responsibilities

• Local IT server room maintenance, including local network infrastructure
• Maintaining a SLURM-based cluster used for research and ensure its stability and functionality, including HW and SW maintenance, data integrity and backup
• Continuous development of tools and services to improve user experience on the cluster
• Management and administration of a GitLab-based code repository (user management, troubleshooting, ...)
• Management and administration of container infrastructure (Docker registry)
• Development of IT and automation tools (preferred, but not a must)
• Repository synchronization and management across different network
• User desktop/laptop/scanners/printers support
• Set up of corporate standard OS/Software/Application and security settings before distributing to end users
• User training on IT platforms/OA/Application/Services

What we expect

• MSc / BSc in Computer Engineering or related discipline
• Experience with Linux server administration
• Hands-on experience with managing compute clusters
• Experience with one or more of:
- Cluster network configuration (Ethernet and InfiniBand)

- SLURM Workload Manager - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code (preferably Ansible)- Container Environments Docker, (or Singularity, or Sarus)- Continuous integration (Jenkins, Gitlab CI)- NFS - Backup solutions

What we offer

 

We are offering a challenging, multi-national IT environment where the IT infrastructure and software is managed, manufactured and developed in-house. You will be working as a part of Huawei’s European R&D IT group with possibilities to travel and support Huawei sites in other countries.