Manager of Department of Electrical Engineering

Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH

PDC is expanding its group of system administrators. We are looking for a new system manager to become an integral part of our System Operations team currently consisting of ten people, running PDC's computational and storage infrastructure.

We warmly welcome your application!

Job description

The work includes:

Administration of the HPC and storage infrastructures and services
Development of these services based on user needs and technological advances
Close interaction with the PDC application experts, users and suppliers of computing systems and software

PDC operates state-of-the-art computational and storage resources for a variety of scientific application domains, including mechanics, computational chemistry, life sciences and physics. The center currently operates the most powerful academic computer in Sweden, an HPE Cray EX with 1282 CPU nodes and 70 GPU nodes with just over 500 GPUs in total.
Please see https://www.pdc.kth.se

for more information.

You will have good opportunities to attend courses and conferences.

Qualifications

Requirements

An academic degree in computer/computing science or in an area that uses HPC calculations or equivalent experience/skills.
Extensive experience using, deploying, and administrating large Linux-based systems and services, as well as experience operating large HPC systems, preferably in an academic/research environment.
Excellent knowledge of Linux, standard programming and scripting languages.
A good command of English. Swedish is not required as PDC is an international environment and the work language is English.
Ability to work well independently as well as function effectively in a team.

Preferred qualifications

Cluster management systems (e.g. HPCM, Xcat).
Management of physical server infrastructure (e.g. IPMI, Redfish).
HPC-specific APIs and technologies (e.g. Slurm, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA).
Virtualisation (e.g. KVM, Libvirt).
Container tools (e.g. Docker, Singularity/Apptainer, Podman, LXC).
Cloud application and infrastructure platforms (e.g. OpenStack, OpenShift, Proxmox, Kubernetes).
Storage systems and technologies (e.g. Lustre, TSM, Ceph, S3).
Networking (High speed interconnects, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN).
Open OnDemand, ThinLinc.
Computer hall infrastructure.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

Trade union representatives

Contact information to trade union representatives.

To apply for the position

Log into KTH's recruitment system in order to apply for this position. You are responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the instructions in the ad.

The application must include:

CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge
A personal letter describing why the applicant is interested in this position

Your complete application must be received by KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST.

About the employment

The employment is valid until further notice (permanent post) according to agreement.
The employment begins with a six-month probationary period.

Other information

Striving towards gender equality, diversity and equal conditions is both a question of quality for KTH and a given part of our values.

For information about processing of personal data in the recruitment process.

It may be the case that a position at KTH is classified as a security-sensitive role in accordance with the Protective Security Act (2018:585). If this applies to the specific position, a security clearance will be conducted for the applicant in accordance with the same law with the applicant's consent. In such cases, a prerequisite for employment is that the applicant is approved following the security clearance.

We firmly decline all contact with staffing and recruitment agencies and job ad salespersons.

Disclaimer: In case of discrepancy between the Swedish original and the English translation of the job announcement, the Swedish version takes precedence.