High Performance Computing (HPC) Research Support Technician

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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) RESEARCH SUPPORT TECHNICIAN

Employer
University of Luxembourg
Location
Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
5 Jun 2024
Discipline
Computing
Job Type
Engineer, Research Assistant, Researcher
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Fixed term
Qualification
Professional certification
Sector
Academia

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THE UNIVERSITY | ABOUT US…

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the world. The University’s faculties and interdisciplinary centres focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition, the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its “international outlook,” #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250 universities worldwide.
The Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) contributes multidisciplinary expertise in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences and Medicine. Through its dual mission of teaching and research, the FSTM seeks to generate and disseminate knowledge and train new generations of responsible citizens, in order to better understand, explain and advance society and environment we live in.
The University of Luxembourg (UL) is seeking to hire a highly motivated and an outstanding High Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure and architecture engineer within the HPC platform team of the University of Luxembourg led by Prof. Pascal Bouvry (FSTM dean) and Dr. Julien Schleich (HPC Platform manager).
Since 2006, the University of Luxembourg has invested in its own High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities. Special focus was laid on developing large computing power combined with huge data storage capacity to accelerate the research performed in intensive computing and large-scale data analytics (Big Data).
To face the growing needs and new projects of the University of Luxembourg, the HPC platform team has been created to install, extend, operate and administrate the HPC systems, currently composed of 2 HPC clusters, Iris and Aion.
To reinforce this team on the Belval campus, the UL is looking for highly qualified individuals to play a key role in the administration and support of the HPC facilities.
As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with new and advanced technologies and experimental systems.
Further information can be found on hpc.uni.lu

The HPC Research Support Technician will be part of the HPC team to contribute to the operational services of the UL facility of the University (especially at the networking and storage level) and to the research and knowledge in HPC by analyzing user needs, and tailoring solutions matching those needs.

Duties of the position include, but are not limited to:

• Participation in the daily operations, monitoring the HPC clusters, response to incidents in a coordinated manner
• Participation in the first line support activities for our 600+ user base (bug tracking, documentation) and provide second-line support (system expertise, hardware maintenance, SLA enforcement)
• Contribution to the system analysis and design of future infrastructure expansions (hardware & software)
• Contribution to development, and automation of provisioning and configuration management of a Linux-based infrastructure, including but not limited to HPC clusters, parallel storage systems and heterogeneous network equipments
• Deployment of new systems according to best security practices and creation of the associated documentation
• Troubleshooting, perform root cause analysis and resolving system and application problems with users, peers, vendors, and management

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