HPC Engineer

The role
Remote
£550 Inside ir35
6 months contract

Key Skills needed
- Design/implementing Unix/Linux system and services open-source solutions and performance tuning.
- HPC technologies: Lustre, Slurm
- Configuration systems such as Ansible and Terraform
- Unix/Linux Scripting.
- Networking: TCP/IP, DHCP, VLANs, spanning tree protocol, link aggregation for performance (MTU settings) and reliability requirements.
- Linux administration skills, including Bash Scripting, ACL, users, groups, filesystems, packages management, common demons (SSH-Servers, NTP, SSSD, Apache, Ngnix, HAproxy, MySQL, PostgreSQL), etc

Desirable Criteria

As with the essential skill set the below list is desirable for the right candidate to know about an be proficient about a few of these:

- Python and Perl
- Singularity/Apptainer
- AWS ParallelCluster
- Storage technologies: LVM. iSCSI, NFS, Samba, CEPH
- Network WAN/LAN architecture and InfiniBand technology
- Firewall and security administration: IPtables, SElinux
- LDAP, Kerberos
- KVM/LibVirt