Compute Lead

IT and Infrastructure
Hinxton, UK

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We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced HPC professional to lead our Compute team within our Technical Services Cluster (TSC), serving an institute of over 800 researchers and technical staff. You will be working closely with members of the TSC, and more widely with technical users across EMBL-EBI, overseeing the design, deployment and operation of our HPC clusters. The EMBL-EBI has multiple large HPC clusters to support the large data flows and processing services fundamental to EMBL-EBI activities.

The services you will provide, along with the TSC, enable EMBL-EBI’s technical research and administrative staff to process and make the world’s public biological data freely available to the scientific community via a range of services and tools, perform basic research and provide professional training in bioinformatics.

We are situated on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, one of the world’s largest concentrations of scientific and technical expertise in genomics.

Your role

EMBL-EBI is custodian to an ever-increasing volume of data which is made publicly available and is processed internally via multiple HPC clusters, virtualization platforms and private & public clouds. This position offers you the chance to lead a great team, delivering compute services via a range of high end HPC hardware and storage.

**Closing date**: 31 January 2023

**Contract duration**: 3 years (renewable upto 9 years)

**Grading**: Grade 7 - 8 (Monthly starting salary £3,670 - £4,210 after tax) + other paid allowances and benefits

**Reference number**: EBI02108

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Working under the the Head of Infrastructure the Compute Team Lead will:
Architect, design and implement future EMBL-EBI compute infrastructure
Ensure the operation, reliability, and integrity of EMBL-EBI’s compute resources
Drive automation and change which will simplify management and increase efficiency
Ensure reporting interfaces are in place to deliver monitoring and accounting of the compute infrastructure
Drive best practice and efficient usage of the compute infrastructure through positive relationships with key stakeholders across the EMBL-EBI community
Ensure documentation is of standard
Manage and coach the team members through regular 1:1s, setting and tracking objectives and managing performance
Manage the implementation of technical projects
Oversee the sharing of knowledge, training and continuous development within the team
Foster a cohesive and comfortable working environment, mediating any interpersonal issues within the team and providing leadership and direction where necessary
Remain aware of and aligned to broader TSC and EMBL-EBI strategies

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Experience with cloud technologies, including Google or AWS certification
Experience with various network technologies, such as Ethernet and Infiniband
Experience with storage systems, and ideally parallel file systems such as Lustre and GPFS

Working at EMBL-EBI

Join our diverse team and help power the next generation of discoveries in the life sciences.

"What EMBL-EBI does is extremely positive and I wanted to be a part of that. Throughout my career, I’ve always tried to take on roles where I can go home in the evenings feeling I have done something to support an organisation that seeks to be altruistic."
Tim Dyce, Head of Infrastructure Services