Context And Mission
The Operations Department ensures the continuous daily functioning of the Spanish Supercomputing Network supercomputers and remote access by users both within Spain and internationally. In addition to all the routine maintenance and operations tasks, the Department staff is also heavily involved in planning and designing new systems and support facilities.
We are offering a position for a High-Performance Computing support engineer. For this position, we are seeking a technology and Linux enthusiastic person who can learn from the basics of the HPC and develop the skills to become a specialist and an essential team member. We work in a warm and positive work atmosphere with close collaboration between us.
Come and join one of the top leading and more powerful supercomputers in Europe!
Key Duties
* Resolve the incidences that the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) users may have during their executions, as well as assist them in developing their applications to obtain efficient use of the computational resources
* Help the User Support and applications consultant group with performance application monitoring and parallel optimization.
* Work in new solutions to improve the user experience using HPC resources
* Create new solutions to automatize the resolution of incidents or request to facilitate the day-to-day work of the team.
Requirements
* Education
o Degree in Computer Science (or related discipline)
* Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
o Minimum 1 year of working experience in an HPC center working with system incidents and user requests.
o Experience in parallel programming models (MPI, OpenMP, threads) will be highly valuable
o Experience and knowledge in Linux systems.
* Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
o Good level of English
o knowledge on MySQL, PYTHON and BASH script
* Competences
o Capacity to interact and build relations with the team
o Good written and verbal communication skills
Conditions
* The position will be located at BSC within the Operations Department
* We offer a full-time contract a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
* Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
* Holidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
* Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
* Starting date: asap