Position: Senior Cloud Software Developer/Architect
Site: MaRS Centre, Toronto
Department: Informatics & Biocomputing
Reports To: Manager and Senior Software Architect
Salary: Commensurate with level of experience
Hours: 35 Hrs/week
Status: Permanent, Full-time
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is looking for a Senior Software Developer to contribute to the technical development of the Informatics and Biocomputing platform. This full-time position is primarily focused on planning the architecture and building the cloud-based software infrastructure to support the Cancer Genome Collaboratory. Collaboratory will create a cloud-based computing facility for integrating and advancing technologies for manipulating, managing, and analyzing huge genomic data from thousands of individuals taken from the International Cancer Genome Consortium and other sequencing projects. This position will create secure and scalable, cloud-based software tools to support the analysis of upwards of 15 petabytes of cancer genomics data corresponding to 50,000 genomes.
Our software infrastructure is built upon distributed and scalable frameworks such as Hadoop, Cascading, HBase, Elasticsearch and MongoDB. Our RESTful web applications are based on AngularJS, D3.js and other popular open source JavaScript libraries. Our development/deployment environment is using Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenStack and Ansible. The current ICGC infrastructure consists on a cluster of 101 nodes of 64 to 128 GB of RAM and 3-12 TB of local storage.
The responsibilities include:
- Leading architectural design and prototyping for an analytical infrastructure provisioning process built on top of OpenStack (and AWS) cloud technologies
- Advancing software tools for performing cancer genome analysis in a cloud environment
- Liaise with end-users and distributed team members in order to resolve issues and integrate existing software tools
- Provide guidance to more junior team members and help lead their development
- Implement back-end software to support projects such as a user-portal for accessing genomic data, management tools for tracking usage and costs, and high performance, analytical workflows running on the Collaboratory cloud infrastructure
- Follow excellent coding practices for open source development (manage code in source control, write unit and regression tests, provide documentation on both public and private sites)
QUALIFICATIONS:
- At minimum, completion of a Bachelors degree in Computer Science of Software Engineering or recognized equivalent required
- At minimum, over 4 years up to and including 6 years practical and related experience
- Have strong opinions about robust, usable, and maintainable software
- Strong expertise in Java and associated open source libraries such as Apache Commons and Guava
- Experience with build tools such as Maven and source control using git
- Working experience in web service architectures (RESTful, XML, JSON)
- Experience with using and managing hundreds of VMs using software such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Experience in writing unit and integration tests using JUnit and Mockito
- Experience profiling and benchmarking applications
- Desire to contribute to all parts of the development process
- Desire to work in a production scientific environment and in bioinformatics
- Knowledge of bioinformatics is an asset but not essential
OICR is an innovative cancer research institute located in the MaRS Centre in the Discovery District in downtown Toronto. OICR is addressing significant challenges in cancer research with multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional teams. New discoveries to prevent, detect and treat cancer will be moved from the bench to practical applications in patients. The OICR team is growing quickly. We are innovative, dedicated professionals who bring expertise to each of our roles. We are looking for individuals interested in being part of a culture of excellence that will result in Ontario being recognized internationally as a leading jurisdiction for cancer research.
Launched in December 2005, OICR is an independent institute funded by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation.
For more information about OICR, please visit the website at www.oicr.on.ca.
POSTED DATE: July 15, 2014
CLOSING DATE: Posted until filled
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates can apply here: https://www.recruitingsite.com/csbsites/oicr/JobDescription.asp?JobNumber=734204
OICR has a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunity employer.
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research thanks all applicants. However, only those under consideration will be contacted.
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