Specialist or Senior Specialist (geoinformatics/remote sensing)

We are looking for an expert in geoinformatics and/or remote sensing with strong programming skills.

Do you want a job that lets you challenge yourself, experiment and learn new technologies? This position offers just that an exciting opportunity to work with the latest technologies and supercomputers. At CSC we build important services for researchers at universities and research institutes (https://research.csc.fi/service-catalog).

Your tasks will be related to design, implementation, development and administration of CSC research infrastructure services

The main tasks consist of:

• Software installations, maintenance and development

• Data management

• Development of best practices for Puhti and LUMI supercomputers geocomputing environments (https://research.csc.fi/geocomputing).

• You will also be supporting the service development of Paituli (https://paituli.csc.fi)

• As the Geoinformatics specialist, you have the opportunity of contributing to GIS user support and train

You have a M.Sc degree in a relevant discipline, e.g. geoinformatics, geography or computer science. You are a proactive person and a good team-worker.

You have competencies in following areas:

• Strong programming skills, including Linux and Python

• Software installations: Docker, Apptainer, Ansible, conda, make..

• Version control with git

• Working with virtual machines

• Spatial data management and analysis

• User support and communication

• Technical writing

Optional skills, seen as an advantage:

• Experience in organizing workshops and courses

• Machine learning with spatial data

• Jupyter Notebooks

• OGC API servers: GeoServer, geopyapi etc

• Object storage: S3

• STAC

• Service architecture design

• Spatial databases: PostGIS

• Usage of HPC and cloud resources for data analysis

• Web-development: front-end and back-end

• Web-map libraries: OpenLayers

We are a non-profit company and base our development work on open source and open collaboration. The position is permanent and will be located in Espoo. We have flexible options for remote working.

Please send your application by 2.4.2024. We may start interviewing suitable candidates before the deadline.