Hpc Engineer

Following recent, successful funding of £4m for new High Performance Computing infrastructure, we have an exciting opportunity at Rothamsted Research to recruit for an HPC Engineer, holding Nvidia certification and significant experience in supporting GPU based HPC nodes for modelling, simulations, AI, machine learning, big data analytics, and edge computing for processing massive datasets.
The successful candidate will support the HPC service at Rothamsted by supporting to fully implement, configure, and fine-tune a brand new, state of the art, HPC cluster including a 16Tb large memory node and multiple Nvidia H100 GPU nodes. Experience of liaising with vendors at the appropriate technical level is also required.
You will be a member of the team responsible for the effective evaluation, planning, deployment, operation, and continuous development of the new Linux/HPC technical infrastructure (Rocky 9) using your experience and knowledge of Slurm, EasyBuild, Conda, Ansible, Salt, Docker, Apptainer and other relevant technologies. You will provide guidance for use and administration of the new HPC infrastructure and associated IT elements and ensure appropriate support is provided to our bioinformatics and data science teams in the delivery of strategic programmes and research projects across the institute.
The successful candidate will have a broad knowledge of IT infrastructure, and the ability to hold discussions at the appropriate levels with scientific researchers to address their technical requirements. You will provide technical support triage, troubleshooting and recommendations to scientists on how this new HPC infrastructure can benefit and optimise their research. Moreover, the role will also require the development and delivery of Linux and HPC training courses/workshops, as well as the creation of technical and supporting documentation to promote the HPC infrastructure across the business.
This is a fixed term appointment to 31 March 2025 with a salary in the range of £37,890-£41,438 per annum. The post is advertised as full time, however, part time working hours will be considered for the right candidate.
We are open to discuss flexibility in working arrangements if required. Shortlisting of candidates who are able to commence work at Rothamsted as soon as possible will be prioritised.
Informal enquiries can be made to Mark Tooth, Head of IT Services: Mark.Tooth@Rothamsted.ac.uk

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