Linux HPC Architect

Salary: £70,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require DV Clearance; due to this, we can only consider sole British citizenship holders.
• After the offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks.
• We are looking for a forward-thinking HPC Architect with expertise in storage and infrastructure.
• We need experience architecting large-scale HPC clusters, including CPU, GPU, and accelerator-based systems.
• We expect knowledge of high-performance networking such as InfiniBand, RDMA, and high-speed Ethernet.
• We are looking for experience defining storage architecture, including parallel file systems, object storage, and tiered storage.
• We need understanding of workload orchestration strategies such as SLURM and Kubernetes for HPC.
• We are seeking experience guiding software stack design, including MPI, CUDA, compilers, libraries, and containers.

Responsibilities:

• Define the long-term HPC architecture roadmap aligned with our organisational goals.
• Evaluate and select technologies across compute, storage, networking, and cloud HPC.
• Establish standards, reference architectures, and best practices.
• Architect large-scale HPC clusters, including CPU, GPU, and accelerator-based systems.
• Design high-performance networking such as InfiniBand, RDMA, and high-speed Ethernet.
• Define storage architecture, including parallel file systems, object storage, and tiered storage.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight to our HPC engineering and operations teams.
• Ensure systems are designed for optimal throughput, latency, and scalability.
• Lead performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and workload modelling.
• Identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks.
• Define strategies for workload orchestration such as SLURM and Kubernetes for HPC.
• Guide software stack design, including MPI, CUDA, compilers, libraries, and containers.
• Ensure reproducibility, portability, and performance of workloads.
• Manage and maintain HPC environments including compute nodes, storage, and interconnects.
• Work closely with our team and wider stakeholders across the organisation.
• Engage with multi-national, multi-cultural teams to drive capability development cross-functionally.
• Partner with engineers and HPC vendors to ensure HPC services meet evolving business needs.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Cloud
• CUDA
• Ethernet
• InfiniBand
• Kubernetes
• RDMA
• Security
• Support

More:

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a passionate HPC Architect to join a unique, multi-national Information Management function. This is a dynamic hybrid role with 2–3 days per week on-site due to workload classification. You will become part of a well-respected team recognised for professionalism, dedication, and flexibility, working both nationally and internationally within a culturally diverse organisation. We are committed to investing in our workforce through a personal development programme and supporting the future of software-defined data centres and open source technologies in a fast-paced development environment.

last updated 40 week of 2026