HPC Systems Specialist

Classification: ANU Officer 8
Salary package: $118,399 - $126,607 per annum plus 17% superannuation
Term: Full time, Continuing (Contingent Funded)

This position is Continuing (Contingent Funded). The funding that supports this project has an expected end date of 30 June 2028.

Position overview

NCI (National Compute Infrastructure) is Australia’s leading national provider of high-end computational and data-intensive services, with a highly respected reputation for its services, expertise and innovation. It forms an integral part of the Australia Government’s research infrastructure strategy, and is engaged with, and embedded in research communities, high-impact research centres, and research institutions nationally. NCI is an operating unit of the Australian National University.

NCI is seeking a HPC Systems Specialist to join the HPC team. This person will play a central role in data-to-day administering, configuring and maintaining a world-class petascale HPC service.

Key responsibilities include

• Take a leading role in administering and maintaining modern, scalable Linux HPC cluster systems including operating systems, filesystems, storage, networking, backup/recovery, software licenses and other system software.
• Monitor, diagnose and rectify system faults in HPC systems including hardware and system scalability issues. 
• Implement, enhance and administer cluster monitoring and reliability logging infrastructure. 
• Liaise with stakeholders and play a leading role in supporting user access, workload and resource management systems and utilities. 
• Deploy, configure and maintain HPC system hardware. 
• Implement and maintain adherence to, the NCI security policies across HPC and associated systems. 

About you

To thrive in this role you will bring:

• A relevant degree and extensive experience with HPC systems (hardware configuration and deployment and finding and resolving complex issues with large-scale systems) OR an equivalent combination of experience and education/training.
• Demonstrated excellent knowledge and extensive experience of Unix/Linux, particularly network and filesystem configuration and management (including performance tuning) in a HPC cluster environment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of scripting language(s) such as bash, python or perl suitable for system configuration and management, and C sufficient for improving system packages and utilities.
• A high level of understanding of scalable, reliable system management, practises and utilities particularly for system provisioning and monitoring.
• An awareness of the compute resource needs of scientific computing applications, particularly large-scale parallel applications.
• A high level of understanding of and experience in IT security in Unix/Linux environments.

For further information please email Stephen McMahon, HPC team manager, NCI at stephen.mcmahon@anu.edu.au.

The University actively encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. For more information on employment opportunities, contact our Indigenous Employment Consultant on indigenous.employment@anu.edu.au  

ANU values diversity and inclusion and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to those of all backgrounds and identities. For more information about staff equity at ANU, visit https://services.anu.edu.au/human-resources/respect-inclusion

Application information

In order to apply for this role please make sure that you upload the following documents:

• A statement addressing the selection criteria.
• A current curriculum vitae (CV) which includes the names and contact details of at least three referees (preferably including a current or previous supervisor). If your CV does not include referees, you can complete these online when prompted in the application form.
• Other documents, if required.

Applications which do not address the selection criteria may not be considered for the position.

Please note: The successful candidate must have rights to live and work in this country and will be required to undergo a background check during the recruitment process.  An offer of employment is conditional on satisfactory results.