Context And Mission
The Earth Sciences Department of Barcelona Supercomputing Center, led by Prof Francisco Doblas-Reyes, comprises about 200 people, including scientists and technical staff. It is structured into five distinct but interacting research groups: Atmospheric Composition, Climate Prediction, Earth System Services (ESS), Global Health Resilience, and Computational Earth Sciences (CES).
The successful applicant will join Data and Diagnostics Team (~20 people), within the CES group to attend to the requests of the scientists needing data, performing the centralized data downloads and formattings in the department archive following international community standards (GRIB and NetCDF coming from the Climate Data Store and the Earth System Grid Federation among other sources). This will be done through the ticketing system of the department. The download, formatting, and check of the data will be done through existing tools.
Part time applications will also be valued.
Key Duties
* Manage the user support of the data download and formatting of the department
Requirements
* Education
o Having a "Formación Profesional" or Bachelor in Computer Science, Physics engineer, Mathematics, Physics or related discipline
* Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
o Experience with UNIX/LINUX environments and scripting languages (bash)
* Competences
o This is a user oriented/user support position, so the successful candidate is expected to demonstrate good communication skills
o This is a specialized position so the successful candidate is expected to have a demonstrated learning capacity and the motivation to maintain a learning progression during the contract.
o The BSC Earth Sciences department is an international and interdisciplinary environment, so the candidate must be fluent in English and have good written and verbal skills.
o The candidate will work for an international collaborative project, so it is mandatory to be able to fulfil schedules and coordinate with members from other institutions, as well as disseminate the advances in international workshops.
Conditions
* The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department
* We offer a full-time contract a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
* Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
* Holidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
* Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
* Starting date: asap