The Experimental High Energy Group of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) is composed of physicists and engineers who participate in two international experiments of particle physics: ZEUS of the HERA accelerator (DESY) and ATLAS of the LHC collider (CERN). In the latter experiment the management and analysis of the data, whose number and complexity has no precedents, is performed in a distributed way along a world wide computing network (GRID), being one of the sites at our lab in the UAM.

For the system management of our GRID site we need:

A Computing Scientist or physicist

Profile of the Candidate:

- LINUX at the level of system manager.

- Experience using C++ language and of Perl language will be viewed favorably

- Good knowledge of english and availability to travel abroad.

Tasks to carry out.

- System administration of UAM Grid site.

- Tasks related with Atlas computing in the Grid environment.

The annual gross salary will be 27000 euros. The contract includes full social security benefits. The contract may last at most three years in total.

Applicants are kindly asked to submit a CV together with a statement of interests to Prof. Jose del Peso, jose.delpeso@uam.es, before February 18th, 2009