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# Senior HPC Engineer - Hybrid - Inside IR35

- **Company:** Hamilton Barnes
- **Location:** Stevenage, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Compilers, Nvidia CUDA, Linux, DevOps, General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units, Web Servers, InfiniBand, IT Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Scientific Computating, SSL Certificate Management, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), High Performance Computing, Containerization, Slurm, Docker, Servicenow
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-D309B3CD0B8E9F72AF/

## About the Role

* 10+ years' enterprise IT experience, including 3-5+ years in HPC or research computing.
 * Strong hands-on experience with RHEL 7, 8 and 9.
 * Proven experience managing HPC clusters and Slurm.
 * Experience supporting scientific or research applications on Linux.
 * Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
 * Experience with ServiceNow or a similar ITSM platform.
 * Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
 * Able to work onsite in Stevenage 3 days per week.

Desirable Skills

 * Docker or container technologies.
 * Ansible or similar automation tools.
 * GPU computing, CUDA and GPU-accelerated workloads.
 * OpenMPI, MPICH or other MPI libraries.
 * InfiniBand and high-speed networking.
 * Web server and SSL certificate management.
 * RHCSA, RHCE or equivalent Red Hat certification.

## Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior HPC Engineer to support and maintain a scientific computing environment, with a strong focus on RHEL, Slurm and HPC infrastructure.

You will work closely with research scientists and technical teams to ensure HPC services are secure, reliable and high performing., * Administer, patch and maintain RHEL 7, 8 and 9 across HPC clusters and workstations.

 * Deploy, configure and manage Slurm, including queues, partitions and scheduling.
 * Monitor cluster health, performance, storage, networking and resource utilisation.
 * Install and support scientific applications, compilers, libraries and MPI environments.
 * Work with scientists to optimise workloads and resolve application issues.
 * Troubleshoot hardware, operating system, scheduler and application problems.
 * Manage incidents and service requests through ServiceNow.
 * Collaborate with storage, networking, security and DevOps teams.


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