SC Cleared – HPC Containerisation Expert

Role

SC Cleared – HPC Containerisation Expert

Duration: currently to 06th February 2026

Location: Hybrid – Derby (2-3 days onsite)

Rate: £612.00 per day (Inside IR35)

Job Description

Principal Consultant Skill Set and Knowledge Domain

Must Have

• Experience of using Beowulf clusters
• Excellent knowledge of: Slurm Job Scheduling
• Knowledgeable of Best practices for MPI-optimized container images, including:
  • OpenMPI with Apptainer (SIF)
  • Podman/Buildah tooling and other alternatives

Desirable

• The ability to Conduct interviews with the Customer staff covering the following areas:
  • Current infrastructure & use cases of HPC.
  • Containerisation capabilities workshop and discussion of typical HPC/ML workloads Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including
  • Jupyter ecosystem (Hubs/Labs/Notebooks) for Data Scientists workflows
  • MPI

Nice to Have knowledge of

• The ability to collation of findings for presentation in a written report covering:
  • Market view of container technologies and options for HPC Use Cases
  • Singularity
  • SIF format
  • HPC Workflows
  • Experience in CFD software such as OpenFOAM.
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes as HPC runtime environment
  • Run:AI and GPU slicing

Candidates must hold or be willing to undergo SC