HPC Engineer
Brackley, United Kingdom
At the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, a group of passionate and determined people work to design, develop, manufacture and race the cars with the aim of fighting for world championships each and every year.
About the Role:
Our IT team are looking for an HPC Engineer who has the passion and determination to make a positive impact on the performance of our team via our High-Performance Compute environments, infrastructure systems and end user Linux environments. You will be providing input and taking ownership for projects that will impact across our business and your work will contribute directly to ensuring we continuously develop our position as an F1 Leader on and off the track.
Key Accountabilities (Duties):
* Being a champion of automation, collaboration & innovation
* Working within a DevOps focused environment.
* Providing assistance business-wide supporting a wide range of FOSS tools.
* Become a go-to person and mentor for Linux, automation & HPC topics across the wider IT team.
* Project leadership, management, planning and development of multiple HPC environments.
* Diagnosing, managing and resolving system configuration on systems ensuring high availability.
* Maintaining and supporting our monitoring and observability platforms.
* Troubleshooting software / system issues on a wide range of HPC and Infrastructure platforms.
* Maximising efficiency and performance of available resources
* Documenting methods & procedures.
* Management of patches and routine update cycles.
To be successful you will:
* Bring a wide range of experience and skills and be able to combine them with a high attention to detail, enthusiasm, and curiosity
Candidate Profile
Essential:
* Proven Linux experience.
* A degree level qualification in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
* Knowledge of DevOps methodology & tools (Git, Azure DevOps, Github, Gitlab).
* Knowledge of automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef)
* Shell scripting and debugging.
* Experience of administering and supporting alerting and monitoring tools.
* Strong networking skills (TCP/IP, Routing, DHCP, DNS)
* A practical individual who is also comfortable strategizing and dividing their time between project work, support, and maintenance.
* Organised and initiative-taking, able to communicate clearly, and willing to take ownership and accountability for their work.
* Keen to use intuition to perform deeper analysis of problems outside of initial skills and knowledge.
* Experience of working in a fast-paced environment with continual demands and changing priorities.
* Confident and with proven ability to execute operations and changes within an ITIL environment.
Desirable:
* HPC experience desirable (Schedulers, Parallel Applications & Domain Specific Tools).
* Bare Metal provisioning (PXE, TFTP, Foreman, MaaS, Warewulf, xCAT).
* Containerisation Technologies (Docker / Singularity / LXC / LXD / Apptainer).
* Software Defined Storage administration and configuration (Object, File & Block).
* Linux GPU acceleration (Nvidia CUDA, ROCm HiP, OpenCL)
* Experience of high performance, low latency network technologies would be a bonus (InfiniBand, RoCE).
* Working knowledge of performance tuning would be beneficial
* Experience of working with and utilising Cloud Native technologies (S3 Storage, Kubernetes & CSI, Microservices Architectures and Public Clouds).
* Basic understanding of design and manufacturing practices would be advantageous.
Benefits:
Our riverside campus is powered by 100% renewably sourced energy and features an on-site gym and exercise studio, subsidised restaurant and on-site parking with EV chargers available.
We offer a competitive and attractive package of benefits including a generous bonus scheme, Mercedes car lease scheme, private medical cover, life assurance and 25 days holiday.
Why us:
At the heart of our performance are our people. Every member of our team has a voice and plays their part in contributing to our successes on and off the racetrack.
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