BioinformaticsOnline

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute uses large-scale sequencing, informatics and analysis of genetic variation to understand gene function in health and disease and to generate resources of lasting value.

The Sanger website regularly takes in the order of 12 million hits each week and supports over twenty Sanger hosted websites.

As a web developer in the Web team you will be involved in maintaining this world class web service and ensure that the institute's data resources are made available across the world via the numerous Sanger hosted websites. The successful candidate will work as part of the team and be involved in the ongoing development and implementation of high quality, user friendly web interfaces to support the scientific web services.

The EBI provides network services for data retrieval and computational analysis of biological data. These services are crucial to the global molecular biology research community and require constant support and development to remain state-of-the-art. We are seeking a Systems Engineer to join our External Services team, which has a central role in the provision of these services.

The post holder will be responsible for the software environment in which the services are deployed. This will involve close work with the Systems and Networking group (responsible for the hardware environment) and with the developers of individual services within the External Services team and other teams at the EBI. The primary duties include: