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Penta Consulting are a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner helping to deliver professional and managed solutions across EMEA. We are seeking an experienced HPC / AI Operations Specialist to provide onsite operational support and post-deployment stabilisation for a leading-edge HPC and AI platform. Working as a resident specialist, you will play a critical role in ensuring the operational readiness, stability, and performance of a large-scale compute environment while supporting the transition into a sustainable steady-state operating model. This role is ideal for a professional with deep expertise in HPC operations, Linux administration, workload scheduling, GPU-based infrastructure, and enterprise-scale cluster environments. Key Responsibilities Provide Day 2 operational support for the HPC and AI platform. Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and capacity. Support planned maintenance activities, upgrades, and change management processes. Respond to, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents and operational issues. Conduct root cause analysis and contribute to problem management activities. Manage day-to-day cluster, compute, storage, and infrastructure operations. Support workload scheduling and orchestration platforms including Slurm and Kubernetes. Maintain operational documentation, procedures, and runbooks. Deliver knowledge transfer and operational readiness activities to the customer operations team. Support the transition of the platform into a sustainable operational model. Required Skills & Experience Extensive experience administering large-scale HPC environments. Strong Linux system administration expertise. Proven experience with cluster management technologies. Hands-on experience with workload schedulers such as Slurm. Experience supporting container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. Knowledge of GPU infrastructure and AI/ML compute environments. Experience supporting enterprise storage and networking within HPC platforms. Strong troubleshooting and operational support capabilities. Experience working within structured incident, problem, and change management frameworks. Excellent documentation and knowledge transfer skills. Desirable Skills Experience supporting research, scientific, or AI-focused computing environments. Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools. Experience with automation and scripting (Bash, Python, Ansible). Exposure to data centre operations and environmental considerations.
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