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High Performance Computing Expert - Derby
£113,400 - 130,000
Interaction - Letchworth
Eastcheap, Derby
£113,400 - 130,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven background in high-performance computing, including hands-on use of Beowulf-style cluster environments.
- Strong practical knowledge of Slurm job scheduling and MPI job optimization.
- Demonstrated experience with MPI-aware container technologies (Apptainer/SIF, OpenMPI, Podman, Buildah).
- Ability to run structured interviews, technical workshops, and cross-team engineering sessions.
- Experience supporting typical HPC, ML and scientific workloads.
- SC Clearance and UK-only nationality is frequently required for HPC consulting roles within defense/aerospace environments.
Desirable Experience:
- Knowledge of CFD software (e.g., OpenFOAM).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or Singularity as an HPC runtime, GPU slicing, and image lifecycle governance.
- Experience contributing written outputs such as market assessments of HPC container technologies.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the customer to assess existing HPC infrastructure and workloads through various customer workshops and interviews.
- Conduct rapid reviews of existing HPC infrastructure, including Beowulf clusters, Slurm job schedulers, workflow execution patterns, and key use cases.
- Analyze current HPC/ML workloads and identify performance constraints, containerization opportunities, and runtime optimization options.
- Produce a strategy for MPI-optimized container images using tools such as Apptainer/Singularity (SIF), OpenMPI, Podman, and Buildah.
- Outline repeatable, secure build pipelines for HPC workloads in the reports findings.
- Identify opportunities to align container platforms with HPC orchestration requirements (batch, interactive, scientific workflows).
- Lead technical discussions, workshops, and training sessions to upskill engineering and research teams on containerization and HPC best practices.
- Produce concise written reports outlining recommendations, findings, use cases, future strategy, HPC market view, next steps, and architectural patterns.
Description
We are seeking an HPC Expert to provide high-level consultancy and engineering expertise in modernising High-Performance Computing environments. Our focus will be on the containerisation of HPC and HPC/ML workloads, cluster optimisation, and MPI-aware workflows. This role offers competitive pay rates and is based in the Nottingham/Derby area. We believe in fostering strong collaboration within our teams, ensuring that our engineers and researchers benefit from hands-on workshops and training sessions.
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