Linux System Engineer

You will support and maintain enterprise-scale Linux and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments, working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Slurm and GPU computing technologies.

Contract:

12 months

Location:

Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
Working pattern:
Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week

The Project

You will manage and secure a scientific computing environment supporting research applications and computational workloads. Working alongside research scientists and technical teams, you will help deliver reliable, secure and high-performing HPC services.

• Administer, patch and secure RHEL 7, 8 and 9 environments.
• Deploy, configure and manage Slurm workload scheduling.
• Monitor and optimise HPC cluster performance and resource utilisation.
• Support scientific software, compilers, libraries and MPI environments.
• Troubleshoot hardware, operating system, scheduler and application issues.
• Work with scientists to optimise computational workloads.
• Manage incidents and service requests through Service Now.
• Collaborate with networking, storage, security and Dev Ops teams.

Essential:

• 10+ years' enterprise IT experience.
• 3-5 years' HPC or research computing experience.
• Strong RHEL 7, 8 and 9 administration.
• HPC cluster management and Slurm.
• Linux-based scientific application support.
• Service Now or equivalent ITSM platform.

Desirable:

• Docker and container technologies.
• Ansible and configuration management.
• GPU computing and CUDA.
• OpenMPI, MPICH and Infini Band.
• High-speed Ethernet and HPC networking.
• Web server configuration and SSL certificates.
• RHCSA or RHCE certifications.

UK right-to-work candidates only, including eligible dependant visa holders and those with ILR. Unfortunately, visa sponsorship or Skilled Worker visa support is not available.

Linux, High Performance Computing, HPC, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Linux System Administration, Slurm, HPC Cluster Management, Service Now, CUDA, GPU Computing, Ansible,