Northampton
• Own the reliability, availability and performance of HPC platforms supporting simulation, analysis and engineering workloads, • Improve compute, storage, networking and scheduling services to enable efficient, scalable workload delivery, • Provide technical escalation for HPC incidents, capacity issues, performance bottlenecks and complex user problems, • Administering Linux-based HPC clusters, including compute nodes, schedulers and shared platform services, • Troubleshooting issues across hardware, OS, network, storage, applications and user workflows, • Managing capacity, performance and availability for engineering and simulation workloads, • Automating operational tasks using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible or equivalent tools, • Translating technical user requirements into practical service improvements, • Own the reliability, availability and performance of HPC platforms supporting simulation, analysis and engineering workloads, • Improve compute, storage, networking and scheduling services to enable efficient, scalable workload delivery, • Provide technical escalation for HPC incidents, capacity issues, performance bottlenecks and complex user problems, • Administering Linux-based HPC clusters, including compute nodes, schedulers and shared platform services, • Troubleshooting issues across hardware, OS, network, storage, applications and user workflows, • Managing capacity, performance and availability for engineering and simulation workloads, • Automating operational tasks using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible or equivalent tools, • Translating technical user requirements into practical service improvements, • Administering Linux-based HPC clusters, including compute nodes, schedulers and shared platform services, • Troubleshooting issues across hardware, OS, network, storage, applications and user workflows, • Managing capacity, performance and availability for engineering and simulation workloads, • Automating operational tasks using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible or equivalent tools, • Translating technical user requirements into practical service improvements, • Supporting Linux-based HPC, scientific computing, simulation or high-throughput compute environments, • Diagnosing workload, queue, licence, performance, data movement and application issues, • Operating at a senior technical level in an enterprise or engineering-led environment, • Delivering maintenance, upgrades, patching and change activity with minimal service impact, • Working with suppliers and internal teams to resolve platform issues and improve service maturity, • HPC architecture, parallel workloads, scheduling, queues and resource allocation, • Linux administration, scripting, patching and secure configuration, • Schedulers such as Slurm, PBS, LSF or equivalent, • Scale-out storage, file systems, backup, archive and data lifecycle management, • Networking, interconnects, latency, bandwidth and data locality considerations, • Monitoring, performance tuning, benchmarking and capacity forecasting, • Security, vulnerability management, access control and compliance for shared platforms, • Desirable: motorsport, automotive, CFD, simulation or data science experience, • Relevant degree, apprenticeship, professional qualification or equivalent technical experience, • Relevant technical certifications, or equivalent experience, in Linux, HPC, storage, networking, automation or ITIL, • Analytical, curious and comfortable solving complex technical problems, • Proactive in improving resilience, reducing risk and removing operational friction, • Structured, communicative and effective across hands-on delivery and change control, • Collaborative, customer-focused and willing to share knowledge, • Maintain stable, secure and performant HPC services for critical engineering workloads, • Improve compute and storage utilisation through effective monitoring, queue management and capacity planning, • Resolve incidents quickly and reduce repeat issues through automation, documentation and service improvement, • Deliver upgrades, maintenance and project work safely with clear communication and change control, • Improve simulation throughput, data availability and user productivity, • Define and guide strategic direction on HPC related topics, • The role combines operational support and project delivery, including planned maintenance, capacity improvement, lifecycle management and occasional out-of-hours activity #J-18808-Ljbffr