Queen Square Recruitment
HPC Engineer
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New Long term Contract for the role of Senior HPC Engineer
Location: Stevenage (3 days)
Contract Duration: 12 Months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior HPC Engineer to manage, secure, and maintain the organisation’s scientific computing environment. The role will focus on RHEL-based HPC infrastructure, Slurm workload management, and scientific application support, while working closely with research scientists and technical teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing computing services.
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Essential skills/experience:
- Minimum of 10 years’ enterprise IT experience, including at least 3 to 5 years in an HPC or research-computing role.
- Extensive hands-on administration and troubleshooting experience with RHEL 7, 8, and 9.
- Proven experience managing HPC clusters and deploying, configuring, and operating Slurm.
- Experience supporting scientific or research applications in a Linux HPC environment.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, operating systems, schedulers, and applications.
- Working knowledge of ServiceNow or an equivalent ITSM platform.
- Ability to work collaboratively with research scientists and translate computational requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work onsite for a minimum of three days per week and attend at short notice when physical-system support is required.
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- Experience with Docker or other container technologies in an HPC environment.
- Knowledge of Ansible or similar configuration-management and automation tools.
- Experience supporting GPU computing, CUDA, and GPU-accelerated workloads on RHEL.
- Understanding of MPI libraries, particularly OpenMPI or MPICH, and their integration with Slurm.
- Familiarity with InfiniBand, high-speed Ethernet, and HPC networking concepts.
- Experience with web server configuration and SSL certificate management.
- Red Hat certifications such as RHCSA or RHCE, or equivalent qualifications.
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