The Project
You will manage and secure a scientific computing environment supporting research applications and computational workloads.
Working alongside research scientists and technical teams, you will help deliver reliable, secure and high-performing HPC services.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, patch and secure RHEL 7, 8 and 9 environments.
- Deploy, configure and manage Slurm workload scheduling.
- Monitor and optimise HPC cluster performance and resource utilisation.
- Support scientific software, compilers, libraries and MPI environments.
- Troubleshoot hardware, operating system, scheduler and application issues.
- Work with scientists to optimise computational workloads.
- Manage incidents and service requests through ServiceNow.
- Collaborate with networking, storage, security and DevOps teams.
Technical Skills
Essential:
10+ years' enterprise IT experience.
3-5 years' HPC or research computing experience.
Strong RHEL 7, 8 and 9 administration.
HPC cluster management and Slurm.
Linux-based scientific application support.
ServiceNow or equivalent ITSM platform.
Desirable:
Docker and container technologies.
Ansible and configuration management.
GPU computing and CUDA.
OpenMPI, MPICH and InfiniBand.
High-speed Ethernet and HPC networking.
Web server configuration and SSL certificates.
RHCSA or RHCE certifications.
Eligibility and Contact
UK right-to-work candidates only, including eligible dependant visa holders and those with ILR.
Unfortunately, visa sponsorship or Skilled Worker visa support is not available.