Linux Engineer HPC

Senior Linux HPC Engineer

Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills.
You will support and maintain enterprise-scale Linux and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments, working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Slurm and GPU computing technologies.
Contract: 12 months
Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
Working pattern: Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week
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. xwzovoh
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.
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