Senior HPC & Cloud Research Computing Specialist

University of Sydney; Sydney; On-site; AUD 152,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Sydney invites applications for the Senior HPC Research Computing Specialist within the Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH) Platforms team. You will enable world-class research computing by delivering scalable HPC and cloud solutions, supporting researchers and collaborating with ICT, national facilities and industry partners.

You will build reproducible pipelines, manage software environments and containers, and contribute to capacity planning and service improvements for the

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience supporting research computing and HPC platforms.
• Strong Linux HPC and cloud computing proficiency (AWS/Azure).
• Experience with scripting (Python, shell) and software containers.
• Experience with HPC schedulers like PBS/SLURM and national facilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice on HPC, cloud computing, workload optimisation and reproducible workflows.
• Support researchers to identify appropriate computational platforms and resolve complex issues.
• Coordinate researcher access to institutional and national research computing facilities.
• Develop, maintain and support scientific software environments, containers, workflows and data management solutions.
• Act as a liaison between researchers, ICT, national computing facilities and vendors.
• Design and deliver training, workshops, documentation and user resources.
• Analyse platform performance, usage trends and service demand for improvement.
• Promote and adopt research computing services across the University.

Skills

Linux HPC

Cloud platforms

AWS

Azure

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Containers

SLURM

PBS

Research computing

Education

Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field

Tools

PBS

SLURM

NCI

Pawsey

Job description

The University of Sydney invites applications for the Senior HPC Research Computing Specialist within the Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH) Platforms team. You will enable world-class research computing by delivering scalable HPC and cloud solutions, supporting researchers and collaborating with ICT, national facilities and industry partners.

You will build reproducible pipelines, manage software environments and containers, and contribute to capacity planning and service improvements for the