HPC Expert (SC Cleared) - United Kingdom

Our leading consultancy client requires an HPC expert with experience in the following areas:

Skill Set and Knowledge Domain

Requirements:

Conduct interviews with the Customer staff covering the following areas:

Current infrastructure & use cases of HPC.

Collation of findings for presentation in a written report covering:

Market view of container technologies and options for HPC Use Cases

Solution Discovery

Containerisation capabilities workshop and discussion of typical HPC/ML workloads Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including

Job Scheduling (Slurm at Kubernetes), Run:AI and GPU slicing,

Jupyter ecosystem (Hubs/Labs/Notebooks) for Data Scientists workflows

Evaluating Kubernetes vs. Beowulf cluster architectures for HPC.

Skillset and knowledge gap analysis of the team with respect to:

Best practices for MPI-optimized container images, including OpenMPI with Apptainer (SIF), Podman/Buildah tooling, and other alternatives.