Senior Research HPC Engineer

Senior Research HPC Engineer (LMS 2914)
Salary £57, 623 - £61,622 plus London Allowance £5,560 per annum
Higher salary of £61,622 - £67,693 plus London Allowance of £5,560 per annum will be available for candidates with significant relevant experience
Permanent | Full Time |

Location:

Hammersmith London

• Meet regularly with Heads of IT and Bioinformatics, and other parties to develop and deliver Scientific Computing infrastructure, software provisions, and resilient services in line with strategic and scientific goals
• Work closely with researchers to develop reusable tools and to translate experimental and analytical requirements into scalable computational solutions that accelerate scientific discovery and improve research productivity
• Support researchers in utilising HPC, including triaging user issues and translating common pain points into platform improvements
• Help build and maintain reproducible runtime environments, container images, and workflow-supporting services for scientific computing workloads, including bioinformatics, AI/ML, data processing, and simulation workflows
• Assume responsibility for coordination and provision of HPC user training and onboarding
• Ensure best practices in project management are maintained to ensure work is aligned with defined goals and that HPC projects are managed within agreed benefit, timescale, cost, quality, and risk limits
• Monitor, report on, and promote the Institute’s Scientific Computing provisions
• Design and manage varied communication strategies for effective and timely stakeholder engagement, including user-group meetings to ensure full visibility of their ongoing and future requirements
• Develop and deliver training, documentation (e.g., runbooks, SOPs), and onboarding materials to empower researchers to effectively use computational tools
• Maximise opportunities to network with similar organisations to benchmark services and activities Research developing trends to ensure future provision and cost‑effective delivery of the Institute’s scientific goals

• Assist with the scoping, provisioning, configuration, scaling, and validation of compute, storage, networking, and platform services within a high‑performance computing infrastructure
• Support and implement the packaging, versioning, and validation of scientific software to ensure reproducibility and portability across research projects
• Establish policies and systems to ensure that workloads placed on the HPC systems are managed, prioritised, and run to achieve optimal service levels and uptime
• Install, configure, and manage Linux applications manually and using deployment software
• Resolve workflow performance issues on the cluster, and help to design HPC jobs
• Implement and maintain management and monitoring tools, report usage levels and service level data
• Streamline and automate maintenance, deployment, and configuration tasks
• Alongside the Head of IT, assume responsibility for documenting and implementing relevant disaster recovery processes
• Ensure awareness via user feedback and monitoring of likely points of failure, proactive maintenance in mitigation, and repair of HPC resources by diagnosing, anticipating, and troubleshooting arising problems
• Maintain awareness of emerging HPC software security vulnerabilities and apply relevant security patches
• Support the Head of IT in implementing and maintaining HPC related usage policies
• Support LMS IT staff as requested for issues and queries relating to standalone Linux/Unix systems
• Other duties commensurate with the grade of the post as directed by the supervisor

• A degree in a computing/scientific…