Salary: £113,400 - 130,000 per year Requirements: Proven background in high-performance computing, including hands-on use of Beowulf-style cluster environments. Strong practical knowledge of Slurm job scheduling and MPI job optimization. Demonstrated experience with MPI-aware container technologies (Apptainer/SIF, OpenMPI, Podman, Buildah). Ability to run structured interviews, technical workshops, and cross-team engineering sessions. Experience supporting typical HPC, ML and scientific workloads. SC Clearance and UK-only nationality is frequently required for HPC consulting roles within defense/aerospace environments. Desirable Experience: Knowledge of CFD software (e.g., OpenFOAM). Familiarity with Kubernetes or Singularity as an HPC runtime, GPU slicing, and image lifecycle governance. Experience contributing written outputs such as market assessments of HPC container technologies. Responsibilities: Collaborate with the customer to assess existing HPC infrastructure and workloads through various customer workshops and interviews. Conduct rapid reviews of existing HPC infrastructure, including Beowulf clusters, Slurm job schedulers, workflow execution patterns, and key use cases. Analyze current HPC/ML workloads and identify performance constraints, containerization opportunities, and runtime optimization options. Produce a strategy for MPI-optimized container images using tools such as Apptainer/Singularity (SIF), OpenMPI, Podman, and Buildah. Outline repeatable, secure build pipelines for HPC workloads in the reports findings. Identify opportunities to align container platforms with HPC orchestration requirements (batch, interactive, scientific workflows). Lead technical discussions, workshops, and training sessions to upskill engineering and research teams on containerization and HPC best practices. Produce concise written reports outlining recommendations, findings, use cases, future strategy, HPC market view, next steps, and architectural patterns. Technologies: Kubernetes Podman AI Data-Science Security More: We are seeking an HPC Expert to provide high-level consultancy and engineering expertise in modernising High-Performance Computing environments. Our focus will be on the containerisation of HPC and HPC/ML workloads, cluster optimisation, and MPI-aware workflows. This role offers competitive pay rates and is based in the Nottingham/Derby area. We believe in fostering strong collaboration within our teams, ensuring that our engineers and researchers benefit from hands-on workshops and training sessions. last updated 10 week of 2026