HPC Operations Lead

Overview

As HPC Operations Lead, you will steer the operational performance of a large-scale HPC and storage environment within a world-leading research institute. You’ll lead a specialist team, coordinate service delivery, and bridge technical and scientific users to enable discovery. The role shapes long-term technology direction while ensuring systems are robust, accessible, and continuously improving. You’ll work at the intersection of technology and discovery, contributing to research outcomes at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the operational performance of the HPC and storage environment
• Lead and manage a specialist team and coordinate across technical and scientific stakeholders
• Oversee incident management, service performance, and continuous improvement of services
• Influence long-term technology direction and strategy for research computing platforms
• Engage with researchers to translate needs into usable platforms
• Design and operate high-performance storage services for internal and external workloads
• Work with large-scale Linux-based systems, Slurm workload scheduler, Infiniband networking, and GPFS storage
• Ensure accessibility and usability of complex infrastructure across teams

Key requirements

• Proven leadership experience in operations of complex, large-scale computing or storage services
• Strong operational awareness with ability to manage competing priorities and limited resources
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate technical concepts to researchers
• Experience with HPC environments and storage technologies at petabyte scale (preferred)
• Familiarity with Linux-based systems, workload schedulers (e.g., Slurm), high-performance networking and parallel file systems
• Understanding of automation, data centre environments or networking

• Collaborative mindset
• Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders
• Problem-solving under pressure
• HPC clusters and environments
• Linux system administration
• Slurm workload manager

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