System Engineer

We're looking for an experienced HPC Systems Engineer (or Senior HPC Systems Engineer, depending on experience) to support and operate large-scale Linux-based high-performance computing (HPC), storage, and networking environments. This role supports research scientists, academic users, and enterprise workloads, ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performance HPC operations.

Key accountabilities:
. HPC Systems Operations: Administer, operate, and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters, including compute, storage, and high-speed networking

. Manage and support:

o HPC job schedulers (e.g. Slurm, PBS Pro, LSF)

o Parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS)

o Cluster management and provisioning tools

. Perform system monitoring, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning.

. Troubleshooting and resolve hardware, software, OS, and network issues across HPC environments

. Participate in on-call or escalation support rotations as needed

. Work with our software engineer to support our AI/DL applications and our desktop engineer to help with user problems as required.

. Advice and guidance to researchers for HPC application development, debugging, optimization and parallelization

. Deliver HPC user training sessions and contribute to documentation and best-practice guides

Desired Experience, Knowledge & Attributes

. Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

. Preferably with at least 5 years experience with large-scale HPC systems

. Strong hands-on experience with:

o Linux operating systems (RHEL, Rocky, SUSE)

o HPC schedulers and resource managers

o Parallel file systems

. Understanding of HPC performance tuning and optimization techniques.

. Exposure to the following will be of added advantage:

o HPC code optimization and parallelization

o Language and Library: Fortran, Open MP, MPI, C, C++

o Linux Operating systems

o Knowledge of numerical simulation application such as climate research, weather forecasting and aeronautics simulation