High Performance Computing Engineer - Linux/Uni - Inside IR35

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MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

* Plan, configure, manage and maintain all hardware and software components of all HPC, UNIX, Virtualization and Cloud platforms to deliver optimum system availability to users, and ensuring all supplier provided patches and upgrades to the operating system, database, tools and utilities are applied in a timely manner. Support High Performance and High Throughput computing operations.

* Maintaining the security and integrity of all HPC, UNIX, Virtualization and Cloud platforms, including managing all user access rights and implementation of backup regimes and other disaster recovery procedures.

* Providing technical and administrative support for all HPC, UNIX, Virtualization and Cloud platforms to all levels of staff. Ensuring systems are documented and formulate relevant procedures and protocols.

* Monitoring and managing HPC, UNIX, Virtualization and Cloud platforms performance and capacity growth, providing advice on necessary upgrades and replacement of hardware and software so as to maintain the ability of HPC, UNIX, Virtualization and Cloud platforms to support the business. Implementing hardware changes and upgrades and database upgrades and migrations to maintain system performance and growth capacity.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE INCLUDE:

Knowledge/substantive experience of:

* Enterprise class Linux distribution such as RHEL, CentOS, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu

* Basic storage configuration: LVM, iSCSI

* Unix/Linux scripting

* TCP/IP, DHCP, VLANs, spanning tree protocol, link aggregation for performance (MTU settings) and reliability requirements

* Design/implementing Unix/Linux system and services open source solutions and performance tuning

* Open-source storage technologies such as: Lustre, CEPH, GlusterFS

* Samba, NFS

* Apache, Ngnix, HAproxy

* MySQL

Knowledge/substantive experience of:

* Kickstart, Satellite and/or Katello

* Centralized configuration systems such as Ansible, Puppet and/or Chef

* Python, PERL and/or Ruby

* WAN/LAN Architectures

* Firewall administration

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