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Employer
VIB
Location
Ghent
Closing date 20 Apr 2024
Discipline

Life Science
Job Type
Bioinformatician
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Permanent
Qualification
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Context VIB (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit research institute, with a clear focus on groundbreaking strategic basic research in life sciences and operates in close partnership with the five universities in Flanders.
The VIB Data Core is a new initiative that will offer hardware, software, and datarelated services for nonsensitive and sensitive data to scientists of the Research Centers. More specifically, the Core strives to increase the quality, standardisation, reproducibility, and efficiency across the data life cycle from project planning and data acquisition to knowledge generation, and publication and archiving of the research data according to FAIR principles.
The VIB Data Core works closely together with experts from the ELIXIR consortium, a European research infrastructure that unites Europe's leading lifescience organisations. The core team of the Belgian ELIXIR Node, which is embedded in the Core, has been active in providing platforms and guidance for research data management and reproducible data analysis.
The Galaxy platform is an opensource, webbased platform for dataintensive life sciences research. This research environment provides support for reproducible science, facilitates sharing of data and results, and removes the need for users to compile and install tools.

We are looking for a DevOps to strengthen our multidisciplinary service team responsible for data analysis, software development, and computational operations.

Role The Data Analysis team within the VIB Data Core will deploy commonly used services in life sciences on an on-premise cloud infrastructure.

As DevOps you will be responsible for managing and maintaining You will work closely with the international Galaxy community and specifically , contributing to the implementation of new features in the platform and improvements to the services we offer through the platform to life-science researchers.

You will work closely with the VIB Data Core team and the Flemish Supercomputer Center, and with researchers to deploy analysis tools and workflows. You will report to the Team lead Data Analysis.

Responsibilities:

Manage and deploy the Belgian Galaxy platform and related services on cloud infrastructure, through CI/CD
Participate in the design and development of the (distributed) software architecture
Install and deploy scientific software

Requirements:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, bioinformatics, or equivalent
Demonstrated programming experience, proficiency in Python is an asset
Handson experience with Linux/Unix environments and administration
Experience with code versioning systems e.g. git
Experience with cloud technologies and containerisation is an asset
Useroriented attitude with a focus on service delivery
Able to work both independently as well as in a team
Fluent in English, with good communication skills

We offer

An openended contract
Competitive package based on experience and expertise, and benefits
An innovative, challenging, and international working environment in the large lifesciences network of VIB, the ELIXIR infrastructure across Europe, and the global Galaxy community
Contribute to the building of a futureproof, researcheroriented ecosystem for data analysis open to all researchers
Opportunities for personal development
Workplace is located at the Tech Lane Ghent Science Park, a vibrant ecosystem of international corporate R&D centers. Possibility of homeworking, with a balance between working from a remote location and from the office

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