System Engineer (HPC) - #1133360

Fujitsu is seeking an experienced HPC Systems Engineer (or Senior HPC Systems Engineer, depending on experience) to support and operate large-scale Linux-based high-performance computing (HPC), storage, and networking environments. This role supports research scientists, academic users, and enterprise workloads, ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performance HPC operations.

Key Responsibilities: -

• HPC Systems Operations: Administer, operate, and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters, including compute, storage, and high-speed networking

• Manage and support:

• HPC job schedulers (e.g. Slurm, PBS Pro, LSF)

• Parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS)

• Data Lake solution eg: VAST

• Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) eg: Data Management Framework (DMF)

• Cluster management and provisioning tools

• Perform system monitoring, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning.

• Troubleshooting and resolve hardware, software, OS, and network issues across HPC environments

• Participate in on-call or escalation support rotations as needed

• Work with our software engineer to support our AI/DL applications and our desktop engineer to help with user problems as required.

• Advice and guidance to researchers for HPC application development, debugging, optimization and parallelization

• Deliver HPC user training sessions and contribute to documentation and best-practice guides

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

• Preferably with at least 5 years’ experience with large-scale HPC systems

• Strong hands-on experience with:

• Linux operating systems (RHEL, Rocky, SUSE)

• HPC schedulers and resource managers

• Parallel file systems

• Proficient in management and administration of dHCI (disaggregated Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) platforms

• Advanced scripting skills in Bash and Python; working knowledge of R for data analysis, with proficiency in other languages considered an asset.

• Hands-on experience with OpenLDAP administration: user/group management, LDAP queries, security hardening, and performance tuning.Understanding of HPC performance tuning and optimization techniques.

• In-depth understanding of complex IT solutions, including system architecture, integration patterns, and scalability best practices.

• Exposure to the following will be of added advantage:

• HPC code optimization and parallelization

• Language and Library: Fortran, Open MP, MPI, C, C++

• Knowledge of numerical simulation application such as climate research, weather forecasting and aeronautics simulation

*Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.