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HPC Systems Specialist – Senior Systems Administrator

3 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Full time

Grade UE07: £40,247 to £47,874 per annum.

College of Science & Engineering / EPCC.

Fixed Term Contract - Temporary - 2 Years - With strong likelihood of extension.

Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.

The Opportunity:

An opportunity has arisen to join the fantastic team of system administrators and infrastructure specialists at EPCC, the UK’s leading centre for high performance computing and data science service provision. 

With excellent Linux system administration skills and understanding of underlying infrastructure, your focus will be supporting and developing the diverse set of systems and architectures at our state-of-the-art 38MW supercomputing data centre. This hosts some of the most advanced and novel systems in the world, including the UK’s national supercomputing service (ARCHER2), Safe Haven Services which provides secure virtual research environments (SHS) and the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) which incorporates an OpenStack virtualised environment, cutting edge AI capability such as both Kubernetes-based GPU and Cerebras CS-2 wafer scale clusters.

The role will be based between EPCC two office locations: The Bayes Centre in Edinburgh and the Advanced Computing Facility in Midlothian. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a friendly and dynamic organisation that is at the forefront of technology innovation. 

This post is full time (35 hours per week) with 40 days of annual leave.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

A relevant degree plus some experience (or extensive experience without a degree) as a Senior Linux system administrator with an enthusiasm to develop your skills in technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Block, BeeGFS and Lustre, and apply them in the context of large-scale and high-performance computing. Dedication to the acquisition and sharing of subject matter expertise in relevant technical areas, including providing coaching and advice to help grow capability within the team. Drive to provide excellent service to users and independently follow tasks through to successful completion, while responding positively to changes in priorities. Capability of managing small IT projects, setting deadlines and expectations, communicating to internal and external stakeholders and providing satisfaction through to completion.  Ability to apply specialist system administration and infrastructure management skills to solve technically complex problems and generate innovative solutions to operational and development challenges, including identifying and recommending service improvements for example in areas including information security, logging, monitoring and visualisation. Excellent communication, collaborative and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional DevOps teams that can include technical, academic and research colleagues.