Infrastructure Architect

Role: HPC Architect

Location: Stevenage | Hybrid – 2–3 days per week on-site

Salary: Up to £75,000 + bonus & benefits

This role will require successful candidates to achieve high-levels of Security Clearance

Join a globally recognised defence organisation working at the forefront of complex engineering and technology. You'll be part of a highly respected, multi-national Information Management function supporting engineers across the business, with the opportunity to work on nationally and internationally significant programmes. The organisation is investing heavily in the future of its technology landscape, with a strong focus on software-defined data centres, open-source technologies and building the infrastructure needed to support increasingly demanding engineering workloads.

We're looking for an HPC Architect to shape the long-term future of the organisation's High Performance Computing environments. You'll work across compute, storage, networking and workload orchestration, designing scalable and high-throughput infrastructure that can support the evolving needs of engineering teams. This is an opportunity to influence architectural direction, evaluate emerging technologies and provide technical leadership across HPC engineering and operations, working closely with internal stakeholders and specialist technology vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the long-term HPC architecture roadmap, standards and reference architectures in line with business requirements.
• Architect large-scale CPU, GPU and accelerator-based HPC clusters, including high-performance networking and interconnects.
• Design and evolve high-performance storage environments, including parallel file systems, object storage and tiered storage.
• Lead performance optimisation, benchmarking and capacity planning, identifying and resolving architectural bottlenecks.
• Shape the HPC software ecosystem, including SLURM, Kubernetes, MPI, CUDA, compilers and container technologies.

If you're an experienced HPC Engineer, HPC Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Architect or HPC Architect looking for the opportunity to shape the future of a large-scale HPC environment, get in touch for a confidential conversation.