Do you want to be a part of a top professional team that is pushing the boundaries in a dynamic atmosphere with latest technologies, where growth potential is as high as your imagination? At the Danish National Genome Center we are establishing a world-class national High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure for Precision Medicine. As a Automation engineer you will be joining a team of experts who are the best of the best in their respective fields.

About the Danish National Genome Center
The Danish National Genome Center’s primary task is to lay the foundation for the development of better diagnostics and more targeted treatments using whole genome sequencing. The Center has a national responsibility to develop state of the art infrastructure to enable analysis on big biomedical heterogenous data.
One of the Danish National Genome Center’s main goals is to be at the forefront of new big data solutions in the healthcare domain. The Danish National Genome Center is working with HPC, cloud, network, servers, storage, applications, users and cross-cutting processes in a Linux software environment.
About the position
The Danish National Genome Center is looking for an automation engineer to join our development/operations team. You will work alongside existing frontend and backend developers, sysadmins, and network engineers, to build and maintain a secure, enterprise-grade continuous delivery system. Your input will shape how we build, test, and release software, and as such will have an impact on the implementation of precision medicine at the national level.
Professional qualifications
You have documented work experience in a field related to biomedicine. You have qualifications on expert level in some of the following areas:

• 3+ years industry experience setting up a CI/CD system
• proficiency in bash scripting and Python
• experience using Ansible, Chef, Puppet or other provisioning tools
• experience deploying dockerized applications securely
• knowledge of working effectively with the git version control system
• a degree in Computer Science or a related technical or scientific discipline.

Personal Qualifications
You are:

• a skilled craftperson who takes pride in building and shipping software. If you are an open source developer, we would be interested in looking at your public contributions
• keeps up-to-date with the latest security best practices
• an effective communicator, capable of conveying ideas to and getting feedback from people with various backgrounds
• flexible, capable of working independently when needed or together as part of a team.

Working at the Danish National Genome Center
We offer an interesting and challenging job in an international atmosphere with focus on the patient, research, innovation and clinical advice for the benefit of the surrounding community. We place emphasis on a high level of professionalism among our staff, so skills development is an integral part of our organisation. We offer a great flexibility in the position.
The Danish National Genome Center is an organisation under the Danish Ministry of Health and is located at Ørestads Boulevard 5, 2300 København S, together with Statens Serum Institute and the Danish Health Data Authority. The organisation is expected to have a core of approx. 100 employees.
Terms of employment
Depending on your educational background and level of experience, salary and appointment terms will be based on either

• the collective agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Federation of Professional Associations (AC) ( overenskomst for akademikere i staten ). Depending on your academic qualifications and experience there is a possibility of being classified as a special or senior consultant according to appendix 4 “protocol concerning special- and senior consultants” ( Protokollat om specialkonsulenter og chefkonsulenter ).

or

• the organizational agreement between The Danish Finance Ministry and the Organisation for Salaried Employees HK/Stat ( Organisationsaftale for kontorfunktionærer, laboranter og it-medarbejdere (HK) ), according to chapter 5 in the agreement and the collective agreement between The Danish Finance Ministry and the Organisation of Public Employees ( OAO-S-Fællesoverenskomsten ).

The position is a full time position.
Please be advised that it is required that you can pass security clearance by the Danish authorities and maintain the security clearance throughout your employment.
Further information
For further information about the position, you are welcome to contact Infrastructure Manager Rafal Wolanin on +45 9351 1252 .
Application and recruitment process
Click “apply” to send your job application with curriculum vitae and diploma / exam certificates.
First round of interviews is expected to be held in week 40 and a second round of interviews may be held in week 41.