Senior HPC Engineer: Build & Optimize Large-Scale Compute

Pearson Whiffin IT & Digital; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT & Digital consultancy in the United Kingdom is looking for an experienced HPC Engineer to design, maintain, and optimise high-performance computing environments. You will work collaboratively to ensure system scalability and performance while automating processes using scripts. The ideal candidate must have strong Linux administration skills and hands-on experience with HPC technologies. This role is vital for supporting data-intensive workloads across various platforms, including on-premise and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Linux system administration.
• Hands-on experience with HPC environments and parallel computing.
• Familiarity with performance profiling and optimisation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage HPC clusters.
• Install and configure job schedulers.
• Automate system administration using scripting.

Skills

Linux system administration

HPC environments and parallel computing

MPI, OpenMP, and/or CUDA

Job schedulers (Slurm preferred)

High-speed interconnects (InfiniBand, Omni-Path)

Scripting languages (Bash, Python)

Performance profiling and optimisation techniques

Tools

Slurm

AWS

Docker

Job description

A leading IT & Digital consultancy in the United Kingdom is looking for an experienced HPC Engineer to design, maintain, and optimise high-performance computing environments. You will work collaboratively to ensure system scalability and performance while automating processes using scripts. The ideal candidate must have strong Linux administration skills and hands-on experience with HPC technologies. This role is vital for supporting data-intensive workloads across various platforms, including on-premise and cloud environments.