HPC Platform Engineer Linux - Trading

HPC Platform Engineer (Linux) London to £130k

Do you have a deep knowledge of Linux combined with HPC scheduling experience?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on role at a global systematic trading firm with $25 billion under management, earning significant bonuses.

As a HPC Platform Engineer you'll develop and support scalable workload scheduling solutions for HPC environments using tools such as YellowDog within a large scale computing environment with both on-premise and cloud (AWS) based services. You'll collaborate with internal teams to optimise HPC platforms, with a focus on improving performance, resilience and observability of the compute infrastructure.

You'll also contribute to continuous improvements initiatives, automating wherever possible and sharing your expertise with the team.

Location / WFH:

You'll join colleagues based in high spec offices with free breakfast and lunch at the onsite restaurant, with flexibility to work from home 1-2 days a week.

About you:

• You have experience of engineering and supporting at least one HPC scheduler, such as YellowDog, Ray, Slurm or IBM Symphony
• You have a deep knowledge of Linux
• You have a good understanding of both loosely coupled and tightly coupled HPC workloads and experience of working on large scale systems with 5000+ nodes and high levels of concurrency (100k+ tasks)
• You have experience of monitoring and visualisation of large scale systems
• You have experience with performance tuning of compute, network and storage components and a good understanding of the challenges of user authorisation in large scale distributed environments using AWS IAM and identity providers such as Okta
• You have a good knowledge of AWS cloud services
• You believe in automating if possible and code with Python
• You have strong analysis and problem solving skills
• You're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills
• You're degree educated in a relevant discipline (likely to have studied to MSc / PhD level)

What's in it for you:

As a HPC Platform Engineer you will earn a competitive package:

• Salary to £130k
• Significant Bonus
• Pension
• Private Healthcare
• 25 days holiday
• Opportunity to work on Greenfield systems at the cutting
• Continual learning and development opportunities

Apply now to find out more about this HPC Platform Engineer (Linux) opportunity.