Team Lead Scalable Systems Administrator

Job Title:    Team Leader – Scalable Systems Administrator

Location:    Gosport, Hampshire

Package:    Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type:  Full-time / Permanent

Role ID:      SF17620

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Team Lead Scalable Systems Administrator with a focus on High Performance Computing at our Haslar site where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.
 
The Role

As a Team Leader Scalable Systems Administrator, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary providing leadership skills implementing, operating and maintain a cluster delivering IT services to a diverse user community within the business.
 
Day-to-day, you will:

• Lead a team and be responsible for developing and growing there IT and HPC skills in line with the requirements of the business.
• Configure and optimize Linux-based HPC environments for maximum performance and reliability and implement security best practices to safeguard both HPC systems and data.
• Monitor system performance and resource utilization proactively identifying and addressing any potential issues.
• Work as an experienced IT Engineer improving business delivery performing a variety of project, bid, investment tasks and lifecycle planning.
• Deploy and maintain high-performance computing capabilities to support engineering delivery whilst working in collaboration with software and IT teams within QinetiQ to enhance computing capability.
• Mentor and upskill junior team members providing redundancy in skills and career development.

 
This role is a full-time position based at our Haslar site in Gosport and is 3-5 days a week on-site.

Essential experience of the Team Leader Scalable Systems Administrator:

• Experienced with Virtual desktop environments, High-performance computing environments with a strong understanding of Linux operating and administration systems.
• Extensive experience with configuration and optimisation of queue systems and assisting end users to develop suitable job scripts.
• Proven experience with Low Latency or RDMA network technologies and Linux scripting languages in HPC environmenting
• The ability to be able to lead a team whilst implement decisions and strategies conveying technical concepts to non-technical users.
• A good understanding of common HPC programming languages to a level to suitably assist in debugging code issues. 
• Familiarity with VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix or other virtualised desktop systems.

Qualifications for the Team Leader Scalable Systems Administrator: 

A Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent field) or relevant technical experience.

 

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve Security Clearance as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

 

Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering

 
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

 

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

 

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

 

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

 

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.