Senior HPC Engineer - Hybrid - Inside IR35

Hamilton Barnes; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 9,963,000 - 16,605,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes is seeking an experienced Senior HPC Engineer in Stevenage on a 12-month hybrid contract. You will maintain a scientific computing environment with focus on RHEL, Slurm, and HPC infrastructure.

The role requires close collaboration with researchers and technical teams to ensure secure, reliable, and high-performing HPC services. Key duties include administering RHEL across clusters, deploying Slurm workloads, monitoring health and performance, and supporting scientific

Qualifications

• 10+ years' enterprise IT experience, with 3-5+ years in HPC or research computing.
• Strong hands-on experience with RHEL 7, 8 and 9.
• Proven experience managing HPC clusters and Slurm.
• Experience supporting scientific or research applications on Linux.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with ServiceNow or similar ITSM platforms.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Able to work onsite in Stevenage 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Administer, patch and maintain RHEL 7, 8 and 9 across HPC clusters and workstations.
• Deploy, configure and manage Slurm, including queues, partitions and scheduling.
• Monitor cluster health, performance, storage, networking and resource utilisation.
• Install and support scientific applications, compilers, libraries and MPI environments.
• Work with scientists to optimise workloads and resolve application issues.
• Troubleshoot hardware, operating system, scheduler and application problems.
• Manage incidents and service requests through ServiceNow.
• Collaborate with storage, networking, security and DevOps teams.

Skills

HPC experience

RHEL expertise

Slurm management

ServiceNow experience

Root-cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Onsite Stevenage

Job description

Location: Stevenage, UK

Contract: 12 months
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days onsite
Rate: £340+ per day

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior HPC Engineer to support and maintain a scientific computing environment, with a strong focus on RHEL, Slurm and HPC infrastructure.

You will work closely with research scientists and technical teams to ensure HPC services are secure, reliable and high performing.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, patch and maintain RHEL 7, 8 and 9 across HPC clusters and workstations.
• Deploy, configure and manage Slurm, including queues, partitions and scheduling.
• Monitor cluster health, performance, storage, networking and resource utilisation.
• Install and support scientific applications, compilers, libraries and MPI environments.
• Work with scientists to optimise workloads and resolve application issues.
• Troubleshoot hardware, operating system, scheduler and application problems.
• Manage incidents and service requests through ServiceNow.
• Collaborate with storage, networking, security and DevOps teams.

Essential Skills

• 10+ years' enterprise IT experience, including 3-5+ years in HPC or research computing.
• Strong hands-on experience with RHEL 7, 8 and 9.
• Proven experience managing HPC clusters and Slurm.
• Experience supporting scientific or research applications on Linux.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with ServiceNow or a similar ITSM platform.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Able to work onsite in Stevenage 3 days per week.

Desirable Skills

• Docker or container technologies.
• Ansible or similar automation tools.
• GPU computing, CUDA and GPU-accelerated workloads.
• OpenMPI, MPICH or other MPI libraries.
• InfiniBand and high-speed networking.
• Web server and SSL certificate management.
• RHCSA, RHCE or equivalent Red Hat certification.