Research Assistant (Software Engineer)

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT (50%):

• Maintain servers, including file, web, and proxy servers, including security patches.
• Allocation of compute/storage resources as needed.
• Analyze institute infrastructure needs to implement services providing improvements to systems.
• Management of the Institute Website.
• Liaise with Global IT teams to ensure compliance with their policies and be a single point of contact for the institute for troubleshooting.
• Manage recording and streaming systems during regular seminars, conferences, and workshops.

• Support research teams with advice on efficient data engineering practices including automation of data pipelines, data cleansing, integrity checks, etc.
• Develop processes to handle remote data access/management in compliance with security best practices (and appropriate policies).
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.

• Create APIs to integrate data sources into functional blocks of software and services.
• Create APIs for downstream usage of data models.
• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Promote security best practices for application development. #J-18808-Ljbffr