Assignment Description

Our client in the automotive industry is currently seeking a Storage and Computer Engineer.

In their team, you will work with cutting-edge High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure in Autonomous Drive. You will ensure the smooth daily operations of their HPC environments and help support their users in the business to ensure that our client gets the most value and performance out of the solution as possible.

Their team is managing an existing cluster and is now in the project phase for the next generation major High Throughput Cluster (HTC) with over 100PiB storage and CPU/GPU nodes.

You will work closely with Autonomous Drive & Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (AD and ADAS) developers and engineers as an HPC Subject Matter Expert (SME), supporting in optimizing code and strategies to run in HPC. You will recommend ways of working, arrange workshops and training sessions, capture requirements, identify solutions, set up proof of concepts, help manage workloads and other related tasks. You will also be involved in the continuous improvement and extension of the Storage and Compute (S&C) solutions, as well as in ongoing operations together with their S&C suppliers. You will be given a high degree of trust and be empowered to solve issues to ensure that the business receives the HPC services that they need.

Main Responsibilities:

• Work with technical engineers in the business areas, assisting with methods/workflow, application optimization, automation, etc., to improve the overall user experience and efficiency.
• Act as a local Subject Matter Expert (SME) for everything related to HPC/HTC, including Linux, configuration management, schedulers, hardware, applications, etc.
• Assist in developing standards and procedures and work with external providers to implement them.
• Participate in both internal IT and business projects as an SME.
• Work with external service providers to assist in advanced troubleshooting, reviewing, and signing off root cause analysis reports, etc.
• Participate as an SME and team member in the development of their next-generation HPC/HTC solution.

Requirements:

• Experience in administering data clusters/data centers beforehand or having experience in using data clusters (as a computational engineer, simulation engineer, or similar).
• Understanding various concepts used for data storage, computing clusters, networks.
• Relevant Linux experience.
• Experience in HPC administration in an enterprise environment, including administration of network, servers, storage, clients, etc.
• Degree in IT, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with storage concepts such as scale-out NAS (NFS), SMB, parallel file systems (Lustre), POSIX, and object storage (to name but a few).
• Experience with parallel computing (HPC/HTC), performance troubleshooting & optimization, operating environments at large scale.
• Understand and speak English at a professional level.

To be successful in this position, you are a Linux native and fluent in Python and/or other scripting languages. You have experience working with HPC technologies and are familiar with tools like Slurm/PBS/LSF or similar, Docker/Singularity, as well as Terraform/Ansible or other infrastructure automation languages.

Desired Attributes:

• Communicative and a positive attitude.
• Organized and strive for results and quality.
• Ability to coordinate and handle more than one task at the same time.
• Have a curious approach to new things and willingness to learn and improve.
• Experience with Agile way of working.