Senior HPC Engineer - Hybrid - IR35
Job in
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1, England, UK
Listed on 2026-09-18
Listing for:
Hamilton Barnes
Full Time, Part Time
position Listed on 2026-09-18
Job specializations:
-
IT/Tech
Systems Administrator, Unix/Linux, IT Support, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location:
Stevenage, UK
Contract:
12 months
Working Pattern:
Hybrid - 3 days onsite
Rate: £340+ per day
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 Service Now
. - Collaborate with storage, networking, security and Dev Ops teams.
- 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 Service Now or a similar ITSM platform.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Able to work onsite in Stevenage 3 days per week
.
- Docker or container technologies.
- Ansible or similar automation tools.
- GPU computing, CUDA and GPU-accelerated workloads
. - OpenMPI, MPICH or other MPI libraries
. - Infini Band and high-speed networking.
- Web server and SSL certificate management.
- RHCSA, RHCE or equivalent Red Hat certification.
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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