From Alan.Sill at ttu.edu Thu Jul 3 12:17:31 2008 From: Alan.Sill at ttu.edu (Alan Sill) Date: Thu Jul 3 12:17:48 2008 Subject: [THEGrid] Fwd: job opening for US CMS Tier-3 support References: <38E86F2B-FC11-4117-8C21-A54924F5E3C5@unl.edu> Message-ID: <37045166-E4EF-4EF5-8FAE-C9747DB1D563@ttu.edu> If you know anyone with the right qualifications and interest, please encourage them to respond to this request. Alan Begin forwarded message: > From: Ken Bloom > Date: July 3, 2008 12:02:12 PM CDT > To: uscms-all@fnal.gov > Subject: job opening for US CMS Tier-3 support > > Dear colleagues, > > As mentioned at the US CMS meeting in May, we are seeking to hire a > talented individual who will work on support for Tier-3 sites. The > job ad is appended below; as described, this person would be > resident at FNAL and would work closely with the US CMS grid > services group there, and would be available to consult with and > travel to universities that are developing and maintaining Tier-3 > clusters. A qualified person in this position could make a huge > difference in helping US university groups have an impact on CMS > physics. Thus, we hope that you will help US CMS by letting good > candidates know about this position, and encouraging them to apply. > Someone who already has some experience working with the CMS > software and computing systems may be a good fit for the job. > Please let me or Ruth Pordes know if you have questions about the > position. Best wishes. > > Ken > > > The UNL Research Computing Facility, in collaboration with US CMS, > is offering a 3 year term position. Individual will be resident at > Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, and there is an expectation of > required travel within the US to visit Tier-3 sites and attend > appropriate US CMS meetings at the level of up to six times a year. > Engaged, experienced individual will provide coordinated support and > contributions to the infrastructure delivering data, calibrations, > providing data and job management, and performing computations over > this worldwide facility for the university "Tier-3" groups who have > not previously had direct funding from the project. This individual > will be part of the existing US CMS grid services team - working > with the university based physicists, CMS software and computing, > the OSG, and the European partners. > > Responsibilities include coordinating support for the CMS > application infrastructure (Phedex, CRAB, DBS) for the Tier-3 > centers, deployment, debugging and use of the OSG software stack and > Virtual Data toolkit, contributing to the troubleshooting of end-to- > end system problems involving the Tier-3 universities, and > participating in the interoperability development and testing > between the US and European infrastructure. To qualify for an > interview an individual must have a bachelor?s degree in computer > science, engineering, or a physical science plus two years relevant > experience required; equivalency considered. Experience with > scientific applications over distributed systems; deployment and > troubleshooting of distributed scientific production facilities; > excellent communication skills and excellent analytic and technical > documentation ability are essential. In addition, we prefer that > candidates have a master's degree in computer science, engineering, > or a physical science. Knowledge of grid computing protocols, in > particular those used on the Open Science Grid is helpful. Knowledge > of dCache and other OSG software is desired. Knowledge of US CMS > software, including but not limited to CRAB job submission, > preferred and knowledge of Condor and/or Globus technologies are > also helpful. > > Please view Requisition #080546 on our website at http://employment.unl.edu > for more details and to apply for this position. The University of > Nebraska-Lincoln is committed to a pluralistic campus community > through affirmative action, equal opportunity, work-life balance, > and dual careers.