HPC Architect: Scalable Linux Clusters & Storage

MBDA; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Bonus

Pension

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Healthcare plan

Free parking

Job summary

MBDA in Stevenage is seeking a forward-thinking HPC Architect to define the long-term HPC roadmap across compute, storage and interconnects, aligning with business goals. You will lead architecture and standards for scalable, high-throughput environments and collaborate with multinational teams.

You will design large-scale clusters (CPU, GPU, accelerators), specify high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RDMA, fast Ethernet) and guide the software stack (MPI, CUDA, compilers, containers) to

Qualifications

• Architecture & Strategy: Define long-term HPC roadmaps aligned with business goals.
• Evaluate technologies across compute, storage, networking, and cloud HPC; establish standards and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership to HPC engineering and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Strategy
• Define the long-term HPC architecture roadmap aligned with organisational goals
• Evaluate and select technologies across compute, storage, networking, and cloud HPC
• Establish standards, reference architectures, and best practices
• System Design & Engineering Oversight
• Architect large-scale HPC clusters, including CPU, GPU, and accelerator-based systems
• Design high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RDMA, high-speed Ethernet)
• Define storage architecture (parallel file systems, object storage, tiered storage)
• Provide technical leadership and oversight to HPC engineering and operations teams
• Performance & Scalability
• Ensure systems are designed for optimal throughput, latency, and scalability
• Lead performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and workload modelling
• Identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks
• Workload & Software Ecosystem
• Define strategies for workload orchestration (SLURM, Kubernetes for HPC, etc.)
• Guide software stack design (MPI, CUDA, compilers, libraries, containers)
• Ensure reproducibility, portability, and performance of workloads

Skills

HPC architecture

Storage architecture

Cluster design

InfiniBand networking

SLURM

Kubernetes for HPC

MPI

CUDA

Leadership

Tools

SLURM

Kubernetes

MPI

CUDA

InfiniBand

Job description

MBDA in Stevenage is seeking a forward-thinking HPC Architect to define the long-term HPC roadmap across compute, storage and interconnects, aligning with business goals. You will lead architecture and standards for scalable, high-throughput environments and collaborate with multinational teams.

You will design large-scale clusters (CPU, GPU, accelerators), specify high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RDMA, fast Ethernet) and guide the software stack (MPI, CUDA, compilers, containers) to