HPC Infrastructure Engineer – Linux / Cluster

Overview

In this role you own and improve an on-prem HPC compute environment. You will assess current infrastructure, drive reliability, manageability, monitoring and automation, and reinforce the system to be robust and supportable. You’ll work hands-on in an existing HPC setup, identifying weaknesses and delivering measurable improvements. The role emphasizes knowledge transfer, technical documentation, and close collaboration with the wider team to scope and deliver an upgrade-focused program.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of the existing on-prem HPC/compute environment
• Assess current infrastructure and identify weaknesses
• Implement improvements to reliability, manageability, monitoring and automation
• Perform cluster troubleshooting and remediation to achieve a more robust state
• Document infrastructure architecture and changes; enable knowledge transfer and handover
• Contribute to upgrades, migrations or short-term improvement programmes
• Coordinate with teams on networking and storage within compute environments
• Participate in defining resilience and automation strategies

• Linux HPC / compute infrastructure experience
• HPC cluster administration
• Linux server and node management
• Cluster troubleshooting and remediation
• Infrastructure monitoring and management
• Networking and storage within compute environments
• Infrastructure automation
• Improving resilience and reliability
• Technical documentation
• Knowledge transfer and handover
• Experience with workload schedulers (beneficial)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (beneficial)
• Configuration management (beneficial)
• High-performance networking or distributed storage (beneficial)

• problem-solving mindset
• ability to work hands-on in existing environments
• clear communication and documentation
• Linux
• HPC infrastructure
• HPC cluster administration