HPC Consultant: High Performance Computing, Kubernetes, OpenFoam - 5 day Contract

HPC Consultant: High Performance Computing, Kubernetes, OpenFoam - 5 day Contract

Our enterprise client is looking for a HPC Principal Consultant to join their team.

Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 5 days
Pay Rate: £413 p/d (PLEASE NOTE: Employer NI is paid for by the client)
Total Daily Earnings: £470 p/d (includes rolled up holiday)
IR35 Status: Inside
Location: Derby
NOTE: Active SC Clearance is highly desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct interviews with customer staff covering the following areas:
• Current infrastructure and use cases of HPC.
• Market view of container technologies and options for HPC Use Cases
• Solution Discovery

Technical Skills:

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including:
• Job Scheduling (Slurm at Kubernetes), Run:AI and GPU slicing.
• Jupyter ecosystem (Hubs/Labs/Notebooks) for Data Scientists workflows.
• Evaluating Kubernetes vs. Beowulf cluster architectures for HPC.
• Skillset and knowledge gap analysis of the team with respect to: Best practices for MPI-optimized container images, including OpenMPI with Apptainer (SIF), Podman/Buildah tooling, and other alternatives.

Experience in CFD software such as:

• OpenFOAM.
• MPI, OpenFOAM
• NVIDIA BCM
• MPI, slurm: job scheduler
• Apptainer/Singularity, docker, podman
• SIF format
• HPC Workflows
• Beowulf clusters
• Kubernetes as HPC runtime environment

Soft Skills:

• A strong desire to help others by sharing knowledge, peer reviewing, and contributing to technical and process standards
• Work well within a team, report issues and risks, take part in team meetings, share ideas and work towards improving our service.
• Excellent written & verbal communication with customers to understand and to influence.

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