Stillingstittel:
IT engineer at Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing and Forecasting for Arctic Operations (CIRFA)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
Jobbnorge ID: 128037

IT engineer at Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing and Forecasting for Arctic Operations (CIRFA)

 

Application deadline: 22^nd of August 2016

Ref. no.: 2016/5406

 

Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing and Forecasting for Arctic Operations (CIRFA) has a vacancy for a 100 % position as IT engineer for the design and implementation of a prototype collaborative platform for creating scalable pilot service demonstrations based on remote sensing data. The position is initially for one year, with the possibility of further extension.

 

Contact information

Questions regarding the position can be addressed to:

• Associate Professor Anthony Doulgeris, UiT (Phone: +47 776 45 177, Email: Anthony.P.Doulgeris (at) uit.no), or
• Senior Researcher Tom Grydeland, Norut (Phone: +47 452 21 330, Email: Tom.Grydeland (at) norut.no)

 

Information about CIRFA

CIRFA is a Centre for Research-based Innovation hosted by the Department of Physics and Technology, which is one of six departments at the Faculty of Science and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The Centre will contribute with research on methods and technologies that can reliably detect, monitor, integrate and interpret multi-sensor data describing the physical environment of the Arctic, and efficiently assimilate this information into models to perform predictions of sea ice state, meteorological and oceanographic conditions. CIRFA started up in September 2015, with offices in the Tromsø Research Park. More information can be found on CIRFA's website: http://cirfa.uit.no .

 

Work description

The IT engineer will design and implement a prototype of the CIRFA cloud, a collaborative platform that makes it easy to create scalable pilot service demonstrations based on algorithms developed within CIRFA.

 

The work will include:

 

• design and implementation of a cloud computing environment for developing and deploying services based on remote sensing and model data
• integrating existing libraries and algorithms into the platform
• coordinating with the university IT department and high performance computing group regarding infrastructure
• help train CIRFA scientists in good programming practices

Qualifications

The successful candidate should have a MSc degree in computer science, or a BSc degree combined with extensive experience. Specific qualifications:

 

• experience with programming asynchronous, scalable and distributed applications in cloud environments
• experience with integrating software developed on multiple platforms with a range of different programming languages like MATLAB, IDL, Python etc.
• interested in recent technologies like virtualization, containers, SaaS, PaaS, and microservices
• knowledge of OGC-standards for WPS, WCS, WCPS and GML

Personal qualifications

• quality- and security oriented
• service minded
• independent and collaborative
• creative and solution oriented

Working conditions

The remuneration for the position as IT engineer is in accordance with the State salary scale code 1085 Avdelingsingeniør (Principal Engineer) or 1087 Overingeniør (Head Engineer) based on qualifications.

 

A compulsory contribution of 2 % to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will be deducted.

 

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Hansine Hansens veg 18 9019 TROMSØ

Job kort beskrivelse:
Information and communications technology operations technicians

Land: Norge

Region: Troms

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Hvordan søke: Annet - se fritekst

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år