Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Supercomputer Support

at  Met Office

Job Introduction
We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Supercomputer Support to help us make a difference to our planet.
As our Senior Infrastructure Engineer, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.
Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience of system administration; running and managing a high performance computing environment, catering for the needs of many users with a mixture of business critical and research workloads to deliver a high quality service. Ideally in the SuSE Linux environment (Expert by nature)
• Experience of configuring and managing shared system resources in a multi-user environment, such as allocation of compute resources, managing job priorities, setting and managing group and individual disk quotas
• Experience of configuring and troubleshooting a high performance computing schedular, PBS or SLURM
• Proven analytical ability and problem-solving skills for complex technical issues in an multi-user environment. (We live and breathe it)
• Experience of working in an ITIL-based support environment to deliver a high quality, high availability service for all the system users

As a Linux System Administrator (Supercomputer) in our Supercomputer Support Team, you will support, monitor and manage the supercomputer users and systems which in turn support the running of our meteorological forecast and climate prediction models.
Additionally, you will work, as part of the team, delivering the next-generation HPE Cray EX supercomputer.