Senior HPC Linux Engineer | Cluster Lead & Automation

Entangled Future; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverlane in Cambridge, UK, seeks a Senior Linux Administrator to own and grow our core HPC and Linux infrastructure. This hands-on role combines day-to-day administration with long-term automation and improvement of the infrastructure estate.

You will be the primary owner of our HPC cluster, collaborating with IT management and the Infrastructure Team to deliver a resilient, scalable environment for tomorrow, including deployment of Slurm, monitoring with Prometheus, and integration of SRE

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering and growing infrastructure in fast-paced engineering environments.
• Enterprise Linux expertise: deep knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration, security hardening, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience configuring, scaling, tuning, and troubleshooting job schedulers (e.g. Slurm) and distributed compute environments.
• Strong understanding of network file storage protocols and network optimisation for computational workloads.
• Proficient with container environments and virtualisation infrastructure.
• High proficiency with infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Python, Bash) and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with backup and disaster recovery strategy and implementation.
• Experience managing licensed EDA or similar specialist software tooling (e.g. Synopsys) is a strong plus.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to support both technical and non-technical users and translate complex issues into clear guidance.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the HPC cluster, including compute nodes, storage systems, and networking.
• Evaluate and evolve cluster topology, compute node configuration, and hardware resource utilisation as the estate grows.
• Lead the deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting of HPC tooling, particularly Slurm — including queue structures and job scheduling policies.
• Monitor system performance and ensure high availability of HPC resources, using observability tools such as Prometheus; investigate anomalies and outages.
• Assess and maintain the network file storage solution for throughput, scalability, and latency.
• Maintain, patch, and troubleshoot core Linux infrastructure (RHEL).
• Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues raised by the Riverlane team.
• Provide operational upkeep of core infrastructure, including servers, tooling, and licence managers.
• Maintain Synopsys EDA tooling, including licence server management, environment configuration, and performance optimisation for electronic design automation workflows.

Skills

Linux administration

HPC

Slurm

Prometheus

Ansible

Python

Bash

RHEL

Synopsys tools

Tools

Slurm

Prometheus

Synopsys licence tooling

Ansible

Job description

Riverlane in Cambridge, UK, seeks a Senior Linux Administrator to own and grow our core HPC and Linux infrastructure. This hands-on role combines day-to-day administration with long-term automation and improvement of the infrastructure estate.

You will be the primary owner of our HPC cluster, collaborating with IT management and the Infrastructure Team to deliver a resilient, scalable environment for tomorrow, including deployment of Slurm, monitoring with Prometheus, and integration of SRE