Senior HPC Engineer - Hybrid - Inside IR35

Location: Stevenage, UK Contract: 12 monthsWorking Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days onsiteRate: £340+ per day The Role We are looking for an experienced Senior HPC Engineer to support and maintain a scientific computing environment, with a strong focus on RHEL, Slurm and HPC infrastructure. You will work closely with research scientists and technical teams to ensure HPC services are secure, reliable and high performing. Key Responsibilities Administer, patch and maintain RHEL 7, 8 and 9 across HPC clusters and workstations. Deploy, configure and manage Slurm, including queues, partitions and scheduling. Monitor cluster health, performance, storage, networking and resource utilisation. Install and support scientific applications, compilers, libraries and MPI environments. Work with scientists to optimise workloads and resolve application issues. Troubleshoot hardware, operating system, scheduler and application problems. Manage incidents and service requests through ServiceNow. Collaborate with storage, networking, security and DevOps teams. Essential Skills 10+ years'' enterprise IT experience, including 3-5+ years in HPC or research computing. Strong hands-on experience with RHEL 7, 8 and 9. Proven experience managing HPC clusters and Slurm. Experience supporting scientific or research applications on Linux. Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills. Experience with ServiceNow or a similar ITSM platform. Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills. Able to ..... full job details .....