HPC Engineer

HPC Engineer

Hybrid working 3 days onsite per week in Cambridge

Are you passionate about cutting-edge research computing? We're looking for an experienced HPC Engineer to help shape and deliver world-class services for one of our global clients.

Essential Skills

• 10+ years of hands-on experience operating, crafting or engineering large-scale computing environments, such as HPC, HTC or BC
• Drive innovative computational solutions and exploit emerging technologies
• Experience of administration of large-scale cluster and server computing and related
• Software (eg Slurm, LSF, Grid Engine)
• Hands-on experience working in a DevOps team and using agile methodologies
• Operating and consuming virtualised private cloud resources (eg OpenStack)
• Understanding of Linux system administration, the TCP/IP stack, and storage subsystems
• Experience in implementing and administering large-scale parallel filesystems (eg Weka, GPFS, Lustre)
• Experience of developing and managing relationships with 3rd party suppliers
• Scripting and tool development for HPC & DevOps style platform operations using bash and Python

Desirable Skills and Knowledge

• Previous experience in high performance computing (HPC) environments, especially at large scales (>10,000 cores)
• Operation and configuration of public cloud computing infrastructure (eg AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus
• Managing a virtualized private cloud environment (eg OpenStack) is a plus
• Container technology (eg LXD, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus

HPC Engineer

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