The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is a non-profit, Intergovernmental Organisation funded by 29 member states, one associate member state and two prospect member states. EMBL has over 2,000 members of personnel from over 80 nations based across its six sites: Heidelberg (Germany), Hinxton near Cambridge (UK), Grenoble (France), Hamburg (Germany), Rome (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain).
In service of its world-leading life sciences services, training, and research, EMBL-EBI operates a substantial infrastructure estate, comprising 500PB of raw storage, high bandwidth networks, multiple High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters and a large VMWare presence.
The Head of Infrastructure Services leads a multidisciplinary IT team responsible for the operation and evolution of this massive infrastructure. They will build and maintain a service roadmap, adapting to the diverse IT requirements of the scientific teams across EMBL-EBI. This involves building strong internal relationships, both within the IT department and more widely with the teams managing public-facing bioinformatics services.
Specifically, this role will lead the Infrastructure team (currently 18 persons), supported by team leads, covering data centres, high performance computing, network and connectivity, storage and virtualisation. The Infra...