Linux Network Engineer – DV Cleared

Responsibilities:

• Deliver and support the most powerful supercomputers across Europe.
• Integration and implementation services to build large high performance computing solutions; analyse solution components, understand systems integration challenges.
• Testing and/or evaluating system components, prototyping features, and collaborating with solution architects to define architectural requirements for high-end HPC clusters.
• Level 2 Software Support of HPC customers during installation & implementation.
• Performance tuning and testing of systems.
• Operational support, troubleshooting and optimization activities.
• Work on diagnostic and debugging of sophisticated HPC HW and SW issues, proposal of workarounds when applicable.
• Identify technology gaps in current components that must be resolved to reach future performance targets and functionality requirements.
• Escalation within support organization when needed.
• Knowledge transfer to the local HPC team and customers.
• Contribution to pre-installation and cluster staging at our factory in Angers (FR).

Core Skills

• Good mastery of Linux OS (RedHat / Debian based)
• Good knowledge of server hardware
• Scripting skills: Bash and / or Python
• Solid networking and security concepts
• Proactive and not afraid to take charge
• Interested in working in an internationally oriented environment

Desired but not essential

• Networking specific skills (TCP/IP stack, 40Gb, InfiniBand)
• Virtualization platforms (OpenStack or plain KVM)
• Storage platforms (Ceph)
• Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, Podman (or similar))
• Configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
• Code control (GIT) • Monitoring (Icinga, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Workload managers (PBSpro, Slurm).
• Parallel filesystems technologies (Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS).
• Strong interpersonal skills and integrity to interact directly with customer sites contacts, project managers and technical colleagues, and other key partners.
• Deep knowledge in HPC cluster environment and ecosystem.

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.