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HPC Platform Management Engineer (Linux AWS) London to £130k

Do you have a deep knowledge of Linux combined with HPC scheduling experience?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on role at a global systematic trading firm with $25 billion under management, earning significant bonuses.

As a HPC Platform Management Engineer you'll develop and support scalable workload scheduling solutions for HPC environments using tools such as YellowDog within a large scale computing environment with both on-premise and cloud (AWS) based services. You'll collaborate with internal teams to optimise HPC platforms, with a focus on improving performance, resilience and observability of the compute infrastructure.

You'll also contribute to continuous improvements initiatives, automating wherever possible and sharing your expertise with the team.

Location / WFH:

You'll join colleagues based in high spec offices with free breakfast and lunch at the onsite restaurant, with flexibility to work from home 1-2 days a week.

About you:

You have experience of engineering and supporting at least one HPC scheduler, such as YellowDog, Ray, Slurm or IBM Symphony You have a deep knowledge of Linux You have a good understanding of both loosely coupled and tightly coupled HPC workloads and experience of working on large scale systems with 5000+ nodes and high levels of concurrency (100k+ tasks) You have experience of monitoring and visualisation of large scale systems You have experience with performance tuning of compute, network and storage components and a good understanding of the challenges of user authorisation in large scale distributed environments using AWS IAM and identity providers such as Okta You have a good knowledge of AWS cloud services You believe in automating if possible and code with Python You have strong analysis and problem solving skills You're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills You're degree educated in a relevant discipline (likely to have studied to MSc / PhD level)

What's in it for you:

As a HPC Platform Management Engineer you will earn a competitive package:

Salary to £130k Significant Bonus Pension Private Healthcare 25 days holiday Opportunity to work on Greenfield systems at the cutting Continual learning and development opportunities

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