Are you eager to grow your HPC specialist skills? Are you excited about having a significant impact in a company’s Research and Early Development (R&ED) organisation by enabling scientists and researchers to conduct highly advanced scientific computing and analytics?

Do you enjoy maintaining and operating the newest IT technologies both in the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid in an agile environment?

About the department

DDIT-RED supports the strategic digital transformation of the R&ED organisation needed to realise the company’s strategy, responsible for developing, implementing, operating, maintaining, and supporting the data, middleware, and IT infrastructure used by the R&ED units across the company on-premises and in the cloud.

The company takes pride in being experts in IT infrastructure and platforms, while also having experience and understanding of how researchers use the platforms, data, and compute power made available.

About the position

As an HPC (Operation) Engineer, you will play an instrumental role in collaborating with scientific users to enable the best use of the HPC platforms. Scientific users are situated globally, so you will be working in an international environment with team members around the globe. The position is a user-facing role – close collaboration with scientific users of HPC to understand their needs and provide guidance is crucial to succeed.

Key areas of responsibility

• Strong collaboration with data scientists and research scientists to optimise workflows and code
• Ensuring the operations and maintenance model is functioning seamlessly
• Understanding researchers’ needs and converting this into technical solutions, alongside the continued stability, availability, and performance of the platforms
• A hands-on role in building new features, as well as handling system issues and change requests

About you

A minimum bachelor’s degree with a focus on scientific computing or similar is expected, with a high passion for working with HPC environments or experience with scientific software.

This is a job for someone excited to be hands-on, work with new technologies, and quickly learn new concepts – team-oriented with a strong personal drive to achieve goals, service-minded, and able to thrive in a busy environment, with professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

Required:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience with operations, preferably with systems used in a production context
• Experience and deep knowledge of Linux systems
• A good understanding and preferably experience with DevOps principles such as automation, infrastructure/configuration as code, and CI/CD, among others
• Preferably, experience with scientific software, such as R, Python, MATLAB, or Mathematica
• An interest in working within the HPC field
• Preferably, experience with AWS or Azure

It would be an advantage to have knowledge or interest in IaC through AWS CDK, generative AI and other related machine learning technologies (e.g. from NVIDIA), Ansible, Slurm, on-premise HPC cluster solutions, Lustre or ZFS storage, and parallel programming and MPI.