HPC Production Engineer

Job title: HPC Production Engineer

About the Role Jump Trading Group's global High Performance Computing team is looking to add a Production Engineer in its London office. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining high-performance compute and storage systems to support data pipelines and quantitative research, with emphasis on performance, reliability, and scale. The ideal candidate is hands-on with Linux environments and has a strong software development background to support customized HPC infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, maintain, and support high performance compute and storage systems
• Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems
• Monitor systems and storage performance, up to and including network components
• Build tooling to compile, package, install, and upgrade software and operating system components at scale
• Collaborate with team members and across teams to write code and testing infrastructures spanning both new and existing codebases in multiple programming languages
• Develop and improve systems and user documentation
• Participate in large, coordinated maintenance operations, including during evenings and weekends
• Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure
• Collaborate directly with researchers to optimize their use of HPC infrastructure
• Develop and monitor the tools used to maintain a production computing environment
• Provide operational support on a rotating basis and as needed
• Manage relationships with outside vendors, including traveling both domestically and internationally to meet with current and potential vendors
• Adhere to all company cybersecurity and IT policies, including performing all work using only approved hardware and software
• Other duties as assigned or needed

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional experience in high performance computing (HPC), including parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS), batch systems (e.g., Slurm, Grid Engine), and high-performance network interconnects experience is a plus, but not required
• 5+ years of experience with Linux systems administration
• High proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, C)
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complicated, interdependent, and distributed systems
• Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks (debuggers and profilers)
• Experience with system configuration management tools (SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• A compulsion to perform root cause analysis
• Reliable and predictable availability

Nice to Have

• Experience with high-performance network interconnects is a plus

Compensation & Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits