Software Engineer Position at IAA-CSIC for SKA SRC Activities

[Julian Garrido]

*Position*: Software engineer - Development of a SKA Regional Centre
prototype

*Institution*: Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada,
Spain

*Email inquires*: lourdes at iaa.es,sse at iaa.es

*Deadline*: 4h June. Full consideration will be given to all applications
submitted before the deadline, but the position will remain open to
applicants until it is filled.

*Description*
The AMIGA (Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated Galaxies,
http://amiga.iaa.es) group is looking for outstanding candidates to apply
for a Software Engineer position, included in the IAA-CSIC "Severo Ochoa"
Excellence Program [1]. The selected candidate will be involved in the
development of a Prototype SKA Regional Centre, part of the strategic plan
of the IAA "Severo Ochoa" project.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radiotelescope that, once completed,
will be the largest scientific infrastructure on Earth [2]. SKA will be the
world’s largest  generator of scientific data (reaching exa-bytes data
rates), thus posing a challenge in the extraction of scientific knowledge,
while being driver of technological development in areas such as Big Data.
It is expected that SKA will approximately distribute 600 PB/yr of
Observatory data products among a network of SKA Regional Centres (SRCs).
The Centres will provide access to the SKA community to data products,
tools and processing power to generate and analyse advanced data products.

The IAA SRC prototype will need to prepare for providing access to
SKA science data products via a portal, as well as the tools and processing
power required to fully exploit their science potential, in partnership
with HPC facilities, and integrated in the future network of the SKA SRCs.
To fulfil these aims it is necessary to setup a testbed able to support
analysis of data from precursors and pathfinder telescopes. Those will play
a crucial role for identifying bottlenecks and preparing for the Big Data
challenges following Open Science and FAIR principles.

The AMIGA team is leading the SRC developments at IAA and participates in
SKA at three levels. Scientific level: AMIGA science is aligned with 3 out
of the 12 High Priority Goals of SKA, on the study of the atomic gas (HI)
and magnetic fields in galaxies, and the AMIGA PI (Lourdes
Verdes-Montenegro) is co-Chair of the SKA HI Science Working Group.
Coordination level: The AMIGA PI coordinates the Spanish participation in
the SKA project (since 2011) and was appointed by the Ministry as the
Spanish representative in the SKA SRC Steering Committee [3]. Technological
level: AMIGA is member of the international consortium designing the
SKA Science Data Processor and of the H2020 project AENEAS [4] designing
the federated network of European SKA Regional Centres (SRCs). In addition,
the AMIGA team is active in the area of scientific reproducibility and is
contributing to a set of Open Science principles to be incorporated into
the design of SKA and the SRCs. In particular, it participates in the H2020
project ESCAPE [5], focused on address the Open Science challenge shared by
the Astronomy and Particle Physics ESFRI infrastructures, including SKA.

We are looking for candidates capable of contributing to several of the
following tasks:

• Provide a Science Gateway as the entry point to the IAA SRC prototype
(deploying an existing one and/or developing new components).
• Develop tools for sharing/publishing data and methods according to the
Open Science principles (e.g. services for accessing data according to
Astronomy Virtual Observatory standards).
• Connect the IAA SRC prototype with European e-Infrastructures (through
the European Open Science Cloud, EOSC) and other SRC precursors.
• Set-up an underlying computing and storage infrastructure, required for a
functional SRC prototype able to support data analysis from SKA
pathfinders/precursors.

The successful candidate must hold a PhD/MSc/BSc degree in
Computer science or related fields (e.g. Physics, Mathematics). We are
looking for a candidate with the ability to adapt to challenges
and changes, and who is capable of listening and communicating effectively
with others in English.
The contract is initially offered for 1 year, starting in autumn 2019, and
will be extended to a total of 3 years subject to satisfactory performance. It
will cover his/her travelling expenses.

The ideal candidate will have experience in several of these areas:

• Virtualization tools (virtual machines and containers)
• Science Gateways (developing and/or deploying)
• Distributed Computing Infrastructures
• Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Astrophysics domain software
• Software development in Python
• Development of web services and web applications

*Applications*:
Candidates should submit (to lourdes at iaa.es,sse at iaa.es) the CV, a a
Statement of Interest describing the motivation for this position, and at
least two reference contacts. They should also arrange two letters of
reference to be sent to the e-mail address above.

*Deadline*:
4th June. Full consideration will be given to all applications submitted
before the deadline, but the position will remain open to applicants until
it is filled.


[1] Severo Ochoa distinction is an accreditation from the Spanish Ministry
of Science that acknowledges the Spanish centres that carry out
cutting-edge research and demonstrate scientific leadership and impact at
global level
[2] https://www.skatelescope.org/
[3] https://spain.skatelescope.org
[4] https://www.aeneas2020.eu
[5] https://escape2020.eu
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