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About the Department
Job Summary
Responsibilities
- Develops serverless workflows for scientific data publication systems.
- Contributes to the development of systems to enable publication of large datasets in materials science, chemistry, and other domains.
- Develops, manages, and deploys services that make machine learning models accessible to end users.
- Architecture and Design - contributes to the definition and documentation of requirements, architecture and design of secure, scalable, asynchronous, data access services, based on expanded knowledge of principles of API design, asynchronous processes, service deployment and delivering highly available services.
- Software Development - develops, tests, documents, deploys and maintains high-quality software on a cloud-based platform, including REST interfaces, command-line interfaces, and socket-based services; works with other service and client development teams to integrate and design cross-service features. Applies GitOps principles to create reproducible deployment workflows.
- Research - participates in and contributes to research efforts related to the software, including collecting and analyzing data, and writing research papers for journals or conferences, and present research to key external stakeholders.
- Support - works in close collaboration with the Globus front line support and professional services teams, and directly with end users, to provide technical support services; documents standard operating procedures and protocols.
- Team Coordination and Professional Development - maintains a working knowledge of relevant software technologies being used in scientific and commercial communities; contributes to project planning and project reporting, and recruitment.
- Investigates, analyzes and resolves day-to-day technical problems using standard procedures.
- Supports and maintains existing applications. Works with web developers and responds to requests from users.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.---
Work Experience:
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Certifications:
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Preferred Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or another relevant computer related field.
- Advanced degree in computer science or another relevant computer related field.
Experience:
- 3+ years of relevant programming experience developing, implementing, debugging, and maintaining applications with Python.
- Experience designing, developing, deploying, managing, and maintaining web services.
- Experience with a distributed version control system (e.g., Git).
- Experience with Unix/eLinux.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services.
Technical Skills or Knowledge:
- Exposure to fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of software development.
- Python programming.
- Python frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask, FastAPI).
- SQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite).
- Container deployment and management (e.g. Docker, Singularity, Kubernetes).
- Web technologies (e.g. REST, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, PHP).
- HTTP servers (e.g. Apache, NGINX).
- Unit and integration testing tools (e.g. pytest, Jenkins).
- Web security technologies (e.g. SSL/TLS, OAuth2, OpenID Connect and PKI).
- Shell scripting (e.g., Bash).
- Agile (e.g. Scrum) development processes.
- Experience in high performance computing (HPC).
- Experience in cloud Computing and cloud design patterns (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Experience contributing to an open source project.
Preferred Competencies
- Work in a collaborative team environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong problem solving skills.
- Use standard software development applications and tools.
- Prioritize and manage workload to meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
- Attention to detail.
- Confidentiality related to sensitive University matters such as, strategic initiatives, trade secrets, quiet periods, and scientific discoveries yet to be put in the public domain.
Working Conditions
- Work on a flexible schedule, which will include occasional late night and/or weekend hours.
- Option available for remote work with occasional required attendance at in-person meetings.
Application Documents
- Resume/CV (required)
When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.
Job Family
Role Impact
FLSA Status
Pay Frequency
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Benefits Eligible
Requires Compliance with University Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement
Drug Test Required
Health Screen Required
Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
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