Senior Infrastructure Engineer - HPC

Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer, up to £90k - Office based (commutable from Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Warwick)

This one's for the Linux and HPC specialists who want their next role to actually stretch them.

I'm working with a high-performance engineering organisation operating right at the edge of what's technically possible. This isn't a business that tolerates "good enough" infrastructure. Every cluster, every scheduling decision, every millisecond of latency matters to the outcomes this team delivers.

They need a genuinely senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer. Not someone growing into the title, someone who's already lived it.

You will be leading a small team. You don't need line management experience, but you do need to be happy stepping into that space. What matters more is the ability to bring structure to the work, creating process, driving efficiency, and pulling people together rather than everyone working in their own silo. This is a collaborative role, not a solo one.

What you'll be doing

Designing, deploying and maintaining HPC clusters, container platforms (Kubernetes/Docker Swarm) and machine learning infrastructure. You'll work closely with Platform Engineering and Infrastructure teams to build resilient solutions, manage lifecycle activities, and provide 3rd line support across HPC and Linux environments.

You'll also have a hand in Cyber Security best practice, ITIL Change Management, and continual service improvement, along with leading a small team, bringing structure and driving collaboration rather than working in isolation.

What you'll bring (most of the following, not all)

• Strong Linux systems administration
• HPC cluster management and scheduling (Slurm, Kubernetes)
• Enterprise storage platforms and parallel filesystems
• InfiniBand or high speed networking
• GPU compute workloads and scheduling
• Infrastructure automation (Python, Bash, CI/CD)
• Hybrid/cloud HPC and containerised compute

In an ideal world, you will have come from an advanced technology, simulation-heavy, or other performance-critical sectors, but as long as you have depth in HPC experience and are comfortable managing competing priorities without losing sight of the detail, then that will be more than good enough.

Salary up to £90k, with a strong benefits package. Fully office-based.

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If this sounds like your kind of challenge, I'd love to hear from you. Drop me a message or call me directly on 07791 615703 for a straight-talking conversation about the role.