HPC Platform Engineer Linux - Trading

HPC Platform Engineer (Linux) London to £130k

Do you have a deep knowledge of Linux combined with HPC scheduling experience?

You could be progressing your career in a hands‑on role at a global systematic trading firm with $25 billion under management, earning significant bonuses.

Responsibilities

As a HPC Platform Engineer you’ll develop and support scalable workload scheduling solutions for HPC environments using tools such as YellowDog within a large‑scale computing environment with both on‑premise and cloud (AWS) based services. You’ll collaborate with internal teams to optimise HPC platforms, with a focus on improving performance, resilience and observability of the compute infrastructure.

You’ll also contribute to continuous improvements initiatives, automating wherever possible and sharing your expertise with the team.

Location / WFH

You’ll join colleagues based in high‑spec offices with free breakfast and lunch at the onsite restaurant, with flexibility to work from home 1‑2 days a week.

About you

• You have experience of engineering and supporting at least one HPC scheduler, such as YellowDog, Ray, Slurm or IBM Symphony
• You have a deep knowledge of Linux
• You have a good understanding of both loosely coupled and tightly coupled HPC workloads and experience of working on large‑scale systems with 5000+ nodes and high levels of concurrency (100k+ tasks)
• You have experience of monitoring and visualisation of large‑scale systems
• You have experience with performance tuning of compute, network and storage components and a good understanding of the challenges of user authorisation in large‑scale distributed environments using AWS IAM and identity providers such as Okta
• You have a good knowledge of AWS cloud services
• You believe in automating if possible and code with Python
• You have strong analysis and problem‑solving skills
• You’re collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills
• You’re degree educated in a relevant discipline (likely to have studied to MSc / PhD level)

What's in it for you

• Salary to £130k
• Pension
• 25 days holiday
• Opportunity to work on Greenfield systems at the cutting edge
• Continual learning and development opportunities

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development, Financial Services, and Investment Management

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