Linux & HPC Systems Engineer for Breakthrough Research

imec; Vlaams-Brabant; Sur place; EUR 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Market-competitive salary

Fringe benefits

ImeG/imec.academy development

Résumé du poste

imec in Leuven, Belgium, is seeking a Linux & HPC Systems Engineer to operate, improve, and future-proof our Linux and HPC environments used by world-class researchers. You will help ensure reliability, security, and performance of research computing platforms in collaboration with researchers, infrastructure specialists, and partners.

You will automate tasks with Ansible, Python, and shell scripts, manage Slurm/Open OnDemand based platforms, and contribute to capacity planning and license

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable Linux distributions.
• Experience with Python and shell scripting.
• Experience with Ansible or similar automation technologies.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Signoz.
• Familiarity with container technologies including Apptainer/Singularity, Docker, or OpenShift.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• A collaborative, customer-focused, and service-oriented mindset.

Responsabilités

• Provide second-line support for Linux and HPC platforms.
• Diagnose and resolve system, performance, scheduling, and connectivity issues.
• Administer Linux servers and HPC infrastructure in production environments.
• Perform system patching, security hardening, and compliance-related activities.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, availability, and performance.
• Contribute to incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Create and maintain high-quality operational documentation, procedures, and runbooks.
• Manage and develop HPC platforms based on Slurm and Open OnDemand.
• Support workload scheduling, project allocations, priorities, and reservations.
• Assist users with batch processing, interactive workloads, and scientific applications.
• Support HPC software environments, containerized workloads, and FlexLM-based license services.
• Contribute to capacity planning, utilization reporting, and software license management.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using Ansible, Python, and shell scripting.
• Support infrastructure-as-code practices and version-controlled platform configuration.
• Participate in platform upgrades, migrations, and transformative HPC projects.
• Contribute to the development of hybrid HPC capabilities.
• Share knowledge within the team and actively improve platform reliability, scalability, and user experience.

Connaissances

Linux

Python

Shell scripting

Ansible

Monitoring

Observability

Container techs

Apptainer/Singularity

Docker

OpenShift

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Outils

Prometheus

Grafana

Signoz

Open OnDemand

NoMachine

Slurm

FlexLM

Azure

Description du poste

imec in Leuven, Belgium, is seeking a Linux & HPC Systems Engineer to operate, improve, and future-proof our Linux and HPC environments used by world-class researchers. You will help ensure reliability, security, and performance of research computing platforms in collaboration with researchers, infrastructure specialists, and partners.

You will automate tasks with Ansible, Python, and shell scripts, manage Slurm/Open OnDemand based platforms, and contribute to capacity planning and license