Lead HPC Engineer: Optimize, Scale & Automate Clusters

Monash University; Brixworth; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Monash University in the UK is seeking an experienced HPC Engineer to own the reliability, availability and performance of HPC platforms supporting simulation and engineering workloads. You will improve compute, storage, networking and scheduling services, automate tasks with Bash, Python and Ansible, and provide technical escalation for incidents and capacity issues.

Collaboration with suppliers and internal teams is essential to raise service maturity.

Qualifications

• Expertise in HPC architecture, parallel workloads and resource scheduling.
• Strong Linux administration skills and secure configuration practices.
• Experience delivering upgrades, patches and change with minimal downtime.
• Ability to analyse capacity, performance and data movement issues.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, availability and performance of HPC platforms.
• Improve compute, storage, networking and scheduling services for scalable workloads.
• Provide technical escalation for HPC incidents and capacity issues.
• Automate operational tasks using Bash, Python, Ansible or equivalent.
• Translate user requirements into service improvements.

Skills

HPC architecture

Linux administration

Schedulers (Slurm, PBS, LSF)

Performance tuning

Capacity planning

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Automation (Ansible)

Networking basics

Troubleshooting complex systems

Education

Linux/HPC certifications or equivalent experience

Tools

Slurm

PBS

LSF

Ansible

Bash

Job description

Monash University in the UK is seeking an experienced HPC Engineer to own the reliability, availability and performance of HPC platforms supporting simulation and engineering workloads. You will improve compute, storage, networking and scheduling services, automate tasks with Bash, Python and Ansible, and provide technical escalation for incidents and capacity issues.

Collaboration with suppliers and internal teams is essential to raise service maturity.