Software Engineer: OpenStack | HPC (central Bristol / remote) TL216

StackHPC Ltd is seeking new members for our engineering team to help implement our vision of high performance OpenStack for scientific computing customers.

This role involves focusing on the monitoring, logging and telemetry requirements - both the best practice of well-run OpenStack infrastructure and more specifically on pushing the boundaries of how we understand and visualise the performance of scientific applications. This entails cutting-edge technology to unlock the secrets of cloud performance.

You will need to be interested in understanding and developing the inner workings of cloud infrastructure, and how to develop it to accommodate the needs of the next generation of research computing. You should be self-disciplined and self-motivated, with strong analytical skills. Above all, you should work inclusively in a team.

Working at StackHPC you will become an active contributor to the open source community. You will be representing StackHPC both to customers and to other open source developers.

Example projects
  • Researching, designing and developing performant and scalable monitoring infrastructure
  • Working with customers, sometimes on-site, on gathering telemetry data for application analysis
  • Developing innovative new ways of presenting performance telemetry data
  • Helping to improve operational resilience of OpenStack and identifying failure root causes
  • Optionally, presenting your research at conferences and evangelising the work done by StackHPC
We're looking for
  • Strong technical knowledge of Linux-based cloud infrastructure technologies, such as; virtualisation, containerisation or software-defined networking (SDN)
  • Understanding of the design of OpenStack services
  • Experience with SQL database administration
  • Development of applications that use or implement RESTful services
  • Programming in Python to an advanced level
  • System-level programming experience an advantage
  • Experience of dynamic web interface development an advantage
  • Communication skills (written and oral) an advantage
  • You may also be considering senior cloud engineering jobs such as: OpenStack Developer | OpenStack Engineer | OpenStack Deployment Engineer | Python Systems Developer | Python Software Engineer | Performance Telemetry Engineer | Site Reliability Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure Developer | etc.
Our current technology mix - we'll help you get up to speed

OpenStack services: Kolla, TripleO, Monasca, Heat, Neutron, Horizon, Nova. Supporting components: Grafana, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, InfluxDB. Languages and tools: Ansible, Python, Java, JavaScript. System technologies: SR-IOV, RDMA, iSER

Salary and benefits

  • £40,000 - £70,000+ negotiable
  • Pension contribution (TBD) | 25 days paid holiday | generous stock option scheme | completely flexible working practices | support for travel to conferences and delivering presentations | all development is upstream open source

About us

StackHPC is a small and dynamic consultancy that develops OpenStack capabilities for research computing use cases. Client focussed, we develop solutions that address the gaps in cloud for high performance research computing. We work actively with the OpenStack community to promote research computing; https://www.stackhpc.com/

Location

We're a distributed team and we collaborate virtually. You may work anywhere that enables impromptu visits to Bristol and our customer sites (mainly in UK; business travel is expensed). Our central Bristol location (Desklodge, Temple Way), is 5 minutes' walk from each of Bristol Temple Meads station, St Nicholas food market and Cabot Circus shopping centre.

Even if your CV isn't ready, please talk with Andrew at techfolk to find out more:

0117 318 2447 | [email protected] | @we_are_techfolk

RECRUITERS: StackHPC has selected techfolk as our recruitment partner and cold calling is not welcomed.
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