Regional Centre for Biotechnology
ADVERTISEMENT NO. RCB/IBDC/02/2025/Rectt./HR
RECRUITMENT FOR VARIOUS CONTRACTUAL POSITIONS UNDER THE PROJECT
“SETTING UP OF THE INDIAN BIOLOGICAL DATA CENTRE (IBDC), PHASE-1” AT
REGIONAL CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY, FARIDABAD
Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) is an institution of national importance and statutory body established by the
Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India with regional and global partnerships synergizing with the programmes of
UNESCO as a Category II Centre. The primary focus of RCB is to provide world class education, training and conduct
innovative research at the interface of multiple disciplines to create high quality human resource in disciplinary and
interdisciplinary areas of biotechnology in a globally competitive research milieu.
RCB, with support from the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, has established the Indian Biological Data Centre
(IBDC) for storage and distribution of biological data generated across the nation.
The ‘Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC)’ is the first national repository for life science data in India. IBDC is mandated to
archive all life science data generated from publicly funded research in India. The data centre is supported by the Government
of India (GOI) through the Department of Biotechnology (DBT). It is established at the Regional Centre of Biotechnology
(RCB), Faridabad, in the national capital region in close collaboration with the National Institute of Immunology, the
International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology and the National Informatics Centre (NIC), India. The
Executive Director, RCB also serves as the Lead Coordinator of the IBDC project.
To lead towards the next phase of growth of this prestigious project of DBT (IBDC) and in order to achieve the objectives of
the organisation, applications (in online mode) are invited from dynamic, result-oriented, experienced and dedicated candidates
for the following contractual positions under the Project:
S.
No.
Name of the post &
Monthly
Emolument
Qualifications & Experiences Job Description No. of
post(s) &
age limit
1 Database Manager
Monthly consolidated
emoluments up to
Rs. 1,24,541 based
on the relevant
experience of the
candidate.
Essential:
PhD with three (03) years of
experience, or MTech in CS/IT/E&C/
Bioinformatics/ Computational
Biology/Data Science with eight (08)
years of experience in an academic
setting/industry in design/
implementation of modern database
technologies, HPC and parallel
computing, cloud computing etc.
Supervise and lead the
software developers and
work in close coordination
with domain experts for
database design, application/
portal development, and
development of APIs etc. for
various biological databases
to be developed at IBDC.
Interact closely with groups
managing hardware/OS of
IBDC computing resources.
Post
Age limit:
45 Years
3 Data Curator
Monthly consolidated
emoluments up to
Rs. 89,875 based on
the relevant
experience of the
candidate.
Essential:
MTech in CS/IT/E&C/Bioinformatics/
Computational Biology/Data Science
with four (04) years of experience, or
MCA/BTech in CS/IT/E&C/
Bioinformatics/ Computational Biology/
Data Science, or MSc (Biological
Sciences) with six (06) years of
experience in the area of
bioinformatics/ computational
biology/data science,
genomics/proteomics/metabolomics,
structural biology, biodiversity etc.
Experience of programing in
‘R’, Python, SQL.
Bioinformatic data analysis
(NGS, proteomics,
metabolomics etc.)
Natural Language Processing
(NLP).
Curation and mining of
different types of biological
data under the supervision of
domain experts.
3 Posts
Age Limit:
40 Years
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