Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford

Engineer

• **Key Responsibilities**
• - Operate, maintain, and improve GBI’s hybrid HPC platform, including Linux-based compute environments, Slurm/Slinky workloads, Kubernetes/OKE services, Open OnDemand, GPU and CPU partitions, and shared storage.
• - Help provision, configure, scale, and validate compute, storage, networking, and platform services using infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation tools such as Terraform, Helm and Ansible.
• - Monitor platform health, capacity, job scheduling, GPU utilisation, storage behaviour, and network performance; investigate issues using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• - Support researchers in using our Scientific Computing Platform, including triaging user issues and translating common pain points into platform improvements.
• - Build and maintain reproducible runtime environments, container images, and workflow-supporting services for scientific computing workloads, including bioinformatics, AI/ML, data processing, and simulation workflows.
• - Contribute to safe rollout and maintenance processes for Slurm images, worker node pools, scheduler configuration, container runtime changes, security updates, and monitoring improvements.
• - Create and maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks, validation checks, and issue/PR notes so the platform can be operated consistently and improved safely by the wider team.

HPC Engineer – Generative Biology

Network Operations

• Design, deploy and maintain enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless and network security infrastructure.
• Configure and support routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers and wireless platforms.
• Support and evolve cloud networking within Oracle Cloud environments.
• Implement network segmentation, VLANs and routing architectures aligned to security and operational requirements.
• Monitor network performance, availability and capacity across the estate.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues before user impact.
• Act as an escalation point for complex network incidents and problem management.
• Provide out-of-hours support where required for critical issues.
• Contribute to and help deliver a campus-wide network infrastructure roadmap.
• Lead implementation of agreed initiatives, coordinating internal teams and external partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve standardisation, resilience and operational efficiency.
• Coordinate technical delivery with third-party vendors, installers and integrators.
• Work closely with cybersecurity, security operations, and facilities teams to align infrastructure and delivery.
• Maintain network documentation, diagrams and configuration standards.
• Apply and evolve network standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Support knowledge-sharing across support teams.

HPC Engineer – Generative Biology

Network Operations Engineer