The role holder will be responsible for strategic design and enhancement of the Computing Development Platform and will provide second-tier support to research staff using the system, and will be expected to take technical responsibility for the Faculty of Mathematics' HPC training resource. This encompasses the design, tier-two support and service improvement by the identification and addressing of fundamental, systemic issues of services failure. It also includes the management and resolution of any service disruption. The role holder will take responsibility for the development and ongoing operation of services for HPC application development, delivery and training; and high-performance computing including design, specification, procurement, commissioning and support. Note that there is an HPC System Administrator in post, so the latter is a shared and strategic responsibility.
Requirements :
The role holder is expected to have experience of programming in C, C++, Fortran 90 and Python, using scripting languages such as Bash and Perl, and of parallel-programming using OpenMP and MPI as well as for GPU systems. They will have a track record of administering and integrating Linux operating systems in a research environment with experience of sustainable configuration management and automation, and of configuring and managing Linux HPC clusters and massive SMP systems, including the management of queuing systems such as Moab/Torque and Slurm). Their experience of software development will include standard software engineering practices such as source control systems and more advanced techniques of compilation, optimisation and installation methods on a variety of scientific HPC applications. Knowledge of storage sub-systems, co-processors (such as the Xeon Phi) and accelerators (such as GPU) would be very desirable.