Grade UE04: £25,733 to £28,381 per annum
College of Science & Engineering / Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)
Full time: 35 hours per week
Fixed term: for 12 months
Number of positions: 2
The Opportunity
EPCC, the UK's leading research supercomputing centre, has an exciting internship opportunity for undergraduate students looking to undertake a 12 month industry placement in 2025/26.
EPCC is part of the University of Edinburgh and hosts and manages a unique collection of leading-edge systems at the Advanced Computing Facility (ACF), a secure state-of-the-art facility located on the Bush Estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. These include the UK’s national supercomputing service (ARCHER2) and the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF). We provide researchers and industry with a range of services including high performance computing, AI-capable GPU and Cerebras wafer-scale clusters, access to high performance VMs in our Data Science Cloud and secure data storage for the National Safe Haven.
EPCC has a long and successful history of providing placements and graduate apprenticeships, with many of our team having initially joined via this route, and is committed to providing training, development and coaching to enable placement students to succeed in their studies and early careers.
Placement students will join the friendly EPCC Systems team that provides infrastructure deployment and support, system administration, cybersecurity and operations functions for the systems hosted at the ACF.
You will:
Support and develop systems hosted at the ACF, including running health checks, monitoring, undertaking operating system, driver and firmware updates, investigating queries raised by colleagues or users, working with suppliers to diagnose and resolve hardware and system configuration issues and helping drive continual improvement in our systems and processes.
Help commission new systems and hardware at the ACF, including racking, cabling, operating system installation, documentation in our configuration management system and trouble-shooting and issue resolution as systems are made available to users.
Provide support for the day-to-day running of the ACF with the Data Centre Manager, including managing contractor and visitor access, site security and deliveries to the site, taking cognisance of health and safety procedures.
Your skills and attributes for success
Vocational qualification equivalent to SCQF 8 or a degree in a computing subject.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work independently, prioritise workloads and follow tasks through to successful completion.
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues independently and as part of a team.
Excellent team working and team building skills.
A strong interest in emerging computer technologies and an enthusiasm for broadening knowledge about computing and IT, with a willingness and enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills and knowledge in line with the requirements of the role.
A good, demonstrable working knowledge of managing different operating systems and support in a networked environment, with practical experience in Linux server administration, shell scripting and Python desirable.
Understanding of issues relating to system and information security.