Join a leading independent technology and services provider as an IT Expert Principal.Job Overview:Location:DerbyContract: 19thJan’26 – 6th Feb’26Mandatory check: SC ClearancePay Rates:Umbrella Rate:£500-600/day (via a Hays approved umbrellapany).Hours: hours a week. Monday – Friday.Time:9:00 AM – 5:30 PMHPC Containerisation: HPC ExpertPrincipal Consultant Skill Set and Knowledge DomainMust Have:
1. SC clearance
2. No Dual Single National
3. No OCI
4. Experience of using Beowulf clusters
5. Excellent knowledge of: Slurm Job Scheduling
6. Knowledgeable of best practices for MPI-optimized container images, including:
7. OpenMPI with Apptainer (SIF)
8. Podman/Buildah tooling
9. And other alternatives
Desirable:
10. The ability to conduct interviews with the customer staff covering the following areas:
11. Current infrastructure & use cases of HPC.
12. Containerisation capabilities workshop and discussion of typical HPC/ML workloads Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including
13. Jupyter ecosystem (Hubs/Labs/Notebooks) for Data Scientists workflows
14. MPI
Nice to have:Knowledge of:
15. The ability to collation of findings for presentation in a written report covering:
16. Market view of container technologies and options for HPC Use Cases
17. Singularity
18. SIF format
19. HPC Workflows
20. Experience in CFD software such as OpenFOAM.
21. Docker
22. Kubernetes as HPC runtime environment
23. Run: AI and GPU slicing,
Key Requirements:Candidates must be active SC cleared
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