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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ATLAS job vacancies: Univ. Edinburgh, United Kingdom Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:33:24 +0100 From: Atlas Secretariat Atlas.Secretariat@cern.ch To: atlas-cb@cern.ch CC: atlas-abc ((CERN Atlas Coordination Board)) atlas-abc@cern.ch, Kate Wintersgill kate.wintersgill@cern.ch

Scientific Programmer (Application details)

This post requires a person who will integrate within the group and understand the IT requirements of particle physics. The person will also work in close cooperation with the School IT support team. For ScotGrid the job entails understanding Grid software suites and taking responsibility to work directly with the national and international teams operating the computing grid for the Large Hadron Collider to ensure that the Edinburgh node is reliable and efficient. In respect of local support the job entails understanding, installing and supporting many software packages associated with the LHCb and ATLAS experiments at the LHC. Some programming work within the particle physics context is also likely. Important requirements of the job are the ability to take initiative, own problems and work as part of a team.

Research Associate in Distributed Storage Management (Application Details)

Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in Distributed Storage Management for Particle Physics, tenable initially for two years. You will be focussing upon UK wide deployment of the latest storage management technology using the Grid. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in Geneva, will soon start colliding protons at extremely high energy after more than a decade of research and design. The main goal is to understand the origin of mass in the Universe. The LHC is expected to produce more than 10 petabytes of data per year starting in 2009. The group is in the process of joining the Atlas experiment and a significant part of the role will be supporting UK Atlas storage management. The scale of the datasets involved means that this work will be close to the frontier of world research in data management. The post would suit someone trained in particle physics, or another computationally intensive research field, that has a strong interest in computing. Experience with Linux is essential and programming/scripting experience beneficial. There will be opportunity to travel within and outwith the UK.

http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/particle-physics-experiment/positions.html