Senior HPC & Research Infrastructure Lead

Network IT Recruitment Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Network IT Recruitment Limited is working with a leading research-intensive organisation to appoint an HPC Infrastructure Lead. This senior technical leadership role shapes large-scale research infrastructure, spanning HPC, HTC, cloud platforms, storage, and networking to support nationally significant research programmes.

You will manage and develop a team of Infrastructure Engineers, drive architecture, and deliver complex projects while serving as a trusted technical authority for researchers

Qualifications

• Significant experience in infrastructure engineering or research computing environments.
• Experience designing and supporting large-scale research or enterprise infrastructure.
• Strong automation, DevOps, IaC, CI/CD and configuration management expertise.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic development, enhancement, and lifecycle management of large-scale research infrastructure platforms.
• Oversee the operation and reliability of HPC, HTC, cloud, storage, and networking services.
• Provide technical leadership for infrastructure architecture, integration, and service design.
• Line manage and develop a team of Infrastructure Engineers, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Lead complex infrastructure projects from design through implementation and support.
• Develop technical roadmaps and support long-term investment planning across technologies.
• Act as a senior escalation point for infrastructure issues and major incidents.
• Build relationships with researchers, stakeholders, suppliers, and partners.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation within research computing.

Skills

Technical leadership

Infrastructure engineering

HPC

HTC

Cloud platforms

Networking

Automation/DevOps

Stakeholder management

Team management

Education

Degree-qualified or equivalent

Tools

OpenStack

GPU-accelerated computing

CI/CD tools

SRE tooling

Job description

Network IT Recruitment Limited is working with a leading research-intensive organisation to appoint an HPC Infrastructure Lead. This senior technical leadership role shapes large-scale research infrastructure, spanning HPC, HTC, cloud platforms, storage, and networking to support nationally significant research programmes.

You will manage and develop a team of Infrastructure Engineers, drive architecture, and deliver complex projects while serving as a trusted technical authority for researchers