Section Manager for Core Services

Vor 3 Tagen


Geneve, Schweiz EPFL Vollzeit

EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide. The EPFL employs more than 6,500 people supporting the three main missions of the institutions: education, research and innovation. The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of more than 17,000 people, including over 12,500 students and 4,000 researchers from more than 120 different countries.

**Section Manager for Core Services (W/M)**:
**Your mission**:

- The aim of the EPFL Blue Brain Project (BBP), a Swiss brain research initiative founded and directed by Professor Henry Markram, is to establish simulation neuroscience as a complementary approach alongside experimental, theoretical and clinical neuroscience to understanding the brain, by building the world’s first biologically detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mouse brain.

**Main duties and responsibilities include**:

- Build and manage activities related to the mission of the Core Services efforts
- Lead the Core Services section team comprised of an expert team of system engineers, and support engineers
- Ensure a future-proof, user-oriented and service-based elastic computing infrastructure and monitoring thereof
- Enable modern DevOps in collaboration with software engineering teams
- Coordinate requirements engineering from teams, project partners and management for a sustainable roadmap
- Coordination of user support to other sections
- Represent the Core Services efforts in technical and scientific contexts

**Essential skills and experience required**:

- Leadership experience for expert technical teams in the area of cloud computing and enterprise computing
- Track record of operations responsibility and customer oriented support for technical teams
- Good experience in HPC (High Performance Computing), cloud computing, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and modern
- DevOps strategies
- Affinity for tracking newest trends in technology
- Experience in out
- and in-sourcing of services and infrastructure, IT2IT experience

**Profile**:

- Master in computer science or similar
- Good team player and fluent English in speech and writing
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral
- Proven ability to work both independently and in team-based environments
- 3 to 5 years experience in management of technical and support teams

**We offer**:

- A world-recognized leader in simulation-based research in neuroscience
- A dynamic, multidisciplinary, international and collaborative working environment committed to benefiting the global community
- A modern working environment, based at the Biotech Campus in Geneva Sécheron

**Start date**:
as soon as possible

**Term of employment**:
Fixed-term (CDD)

**Work rate**:
100%

**Duration**:
1 year, renewable

**Remark**:
**Reference**:
Job Nb 3018



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