Role Description

- We are seeking a passionate HPC engineer.

- The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience making an impact with HPC technology, delivering HPC services to a high quality, and able to relate to the scientific community and work closely with users to make the best use of research computing services.

- The HPC landscape is continually evolving. You will need the skills to help build and operate industry-leading capabilities, including application build frameworks, containerised applications and cloud software-as-a-service. Automated deployment is a key feature and you will need to be comfortable with DevOps processes and delivering consistency through automation and infrastructure-as-code.

Key Accountabilities

- Develop, deliver and operate research computing services and applications.

- Take a Site Reliability Engineering approach to HPC services, managing the development deployment, monitoring and incident response end-to-end.

- Solve complex technical problems, both with SCP services and the user’s use of them.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, And Experience

- 10 years of hands-on experience operating, crafting or engineering large-scale computing environments, such as HPC, HTC or BC

- Drive creative computational solutions and exploit emerging technologies

- Experience of administration of large-scale cluster and server computing and related software (e.g. Slurm, LSF, Grid Engine)





- Hands-on experience working in a DevOps team and using agile methodologies

- Operating and consuming virtualized private cloud resources (e.g. OpenStack)

- Understanding of Linux system administration, the TCP/IP stack, and storage subsystems

- Experience in implementing and administering large-scale parallel filesystems (e.g. Weka, GPFS, Lustre)

- Proven experience of using configuration management (e.g. ansible, salt, puppet) and technology frameworks in IT operations

- Experience of developing and managing relationships with 3rd party suppliers

- Scripting and tool development for HPC & DevOps style platform operations using bash and Python

Desirable Skills And Knowledge

- Scientific degree, and/or experience in computationally intensive analysis of scientific data

- Previous experience in high performance computing (HPC) environments, especially at large scales (>10,000 cores)

- Operation and configuration of public cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus

- Managing a virtualized private cloud environment (e.g. OpenStack) is a plus

- Container technology (e.g. LXD, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus

- Demonstrated development experience with a variety of programming languages, tools, and technologies (Java/C , Python/Ruby/Perl, SQL, AWS) is a plus

- Experience with Hashicorp tools like terraform, vault, consul and nomad is a plus

- Working experience with high-speed networks (e.g. InfiniBand)

📌 HPC Infrastructure Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 Chennai