What you'll do

Passionate about hardware technology and providing support for scientific communities? Join the team in the Fabric and Communication Systems (FCS) group responsible for operating and supporting a wide range of server technologies in the openlab heterogeneous architectures testbed. As a key team member, your responsibilities will include maintaining and upgrading existing server technologies, providing support to scientific communities, debugging system issues, and installing/configuring new technologies.

Your responsibilities

Maintain the existing servers, ensuring optimal performance through regular maintenance and upgrades.
Support scientific communities: provide assistance and support to end-users, addressing queries and resolving issues.
Debug system issues: identify and resolve issues promptly to minimise downtime.
Install and configure new technologies: play a key role in integrating new server technologies into the openlab heterogeneous architectures testbed.
Interact on a regular basis with industry partners and be exposed to novel technologies.
Organise topic-oriented workshops.

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Your profile

Proven experience with computer systems (BIOS/UEFI, x86/Arm processor architectures and virtualisation, memory, GPU computing), interconnects (Ethernet, Infiniband) and types of storage drives (S-ATA, SAS, NVMe).
Experience with management and monitoring protocols such as, but not limited to, IPMI / Redfish, SMART and SNMP.
Extensive experience with Linux and shell scripting.
Demonstrated experience with Python.
Your studies focused on Computer Science / Computer Engineering.

Your skills

Server hardware.
Python.
Shell scripting.
Linux system administration.
Familiarity with performance profiling and optimisation of applications.
Demonstrating the ability to perform performance-oriented debugging.
Proficiency (or willingness to rapidly acquire it) in utilising software configuration management tools, such as Puppet or Ansible.
The ability to work in French would be an advantage.
Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.