Senior Research Engineer On Secure Processing Environments

**Job Reference**:

- 184_25_LS_INB_RE3

**Position**:

- Senior Research Engineer on Secure Processing Environments (RE3)

**Closing Date**:

- Monday, 10 March, 2025

**Reference**: 184_25_LS_INB_RE3

**Job title**: Senior Research Engineer on Secure Processing Environments (RE3)

**About BSC**
- The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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**Context And Mission**
- ELIXIR (European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information) is a pan-European organization founded in 2014 which aims to integrate and harmonize European bioinformatics infrastructures. ELIXIR coordinates the participation of more than 22 countries; engages with other strategic European initiatives and projects, e.g. ESFRI, Research Data Alliance, EUDat and EGI; promotes specific training activities and workshops on ELIXIR resources, partners with industry, and play a key role in shaping the bioinformatics landscape. Spain has been a member of ELIXIR since 2015, with the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) as the Spanish national node. Within ELIXIR, the INB is responsible for the bioinformatics infrastructure offered by Spain and, therefore, should guarantee its alignment with the strategic areas put forward by ELIXIR.
Since 2018, the INB has two overarching objectives: deepen the alignment of its activities with ELIXIR, and increase the translational impact of INB actions towards the Spanish National Health System (SNS). For the latter objective, the INB has created and supports TransBioNet (Translational Bioinformatics Network), which aims to structure, bring together and work with bioinformatics groups in healthcare settings with a particular focus on the Health Research Institutes (IIS) recognized by the ISCIII. Since 2021, the INB has continued its activities in the context of IMPaCT-Data, the Data Science programme of IMPaCT. IMPaCT is the Spanish National Infrastructure for Personalized Medicine associated with Science and Technology by the National Health Research Institute Carlos III (ISCIII).

INB researcher engineers will be in charge of managing INB resources located at BSC, participating in national and international projects involving BSC, both at the research, software development and data management levels.
The INB - Computational Node at the BSC Life Sciences Department is developing a research line centred in the development and maintenance of research infrastructures to serve large-scale biomedical projects. In this context, DataTools4Heart is a European project seeking to generate a tools for cardiology data re-use to help scientists and clinicians navigate through large-scale multi-source cardiology data. We seek a software engineer to adapt, develop and maintain the existing infrastructure to the needs of the projects, and to interact with the technical staff at the different data providers and data repositories.

**Key Duties**
- Development of Virtual Research Environments to support research in several European projects using biological data.
- Develop communication channels among partners for data sharing.
- Develop communication channels among the VRE and data repositories such as the EGA.
- Contribute to supervise other members at the INB/ELIXIR-ES units at BSC.

**Requirements**:

- Education
- Superior degree in bioinformatics-related fields.
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Over 5 years' experience in cloud computing and VREs.
- Over 5 years' experience in data management APIs.
- Over 5 years' experience in database design and management (SQL and noSQL).
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience in authentication/authorisation protocols.
- Competences
- Ability of understand scientific literature, and software documentation.
- Ability to communicate scientific results.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to represent the team in international project meetings.

**Conditions**
- The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
- We offer a full-ti