The Role
Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer responsible for deploying, operating, optimizing, and lifecycle-managing high-performance computing environments. Designs cloud-based HPC infrastructure, manages Linux systems, schedulers, clusters, filesystems, networks, and performance tuning. Serves as an escalation point for critical incidents, supports AI/ML workloads, coordinates suppliers and projects, and contributes to platform strategy. Requires extensive experience with HPC technologies, public cloud, automation, scripting, DevOps practices, and scientific or research computing environments.
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Job Description Summary
The HPC Infrastructure Services (Senior) Engineer executes and ensures service deployments and management to enable modern delivery flows of High-Performance Computing solutions.
Job Description
Job Description
Major accountabilities:
- High Performance Computing (HPC) Specialist for Novartis Core Infrastructure Services team performs the operational health deployment and lifecycle of HPC technology
- Designs innovative solutions utilizing projects and qualification frameworks to run and optimize our complex infrastructures.
- Act as technical and organizational escalation point during major and critical incidents.
- Responsible to track suppliers and partner for effective and efficient delivery of projects
- Contributes to service / platform strategy development
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve.
What you’ll bring to the role
- 6+ years’ IT experience, of which at least 3 in an HPC/scientific computing environment
- Associate's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
- Experience designing and building infrastructure within a public cloud platform (e.g. AWS, GCP or Azure) as they relate to HPC workloads
- Hands-on experience with system administrative task in Linux environment, and fluency in scripting (shell scripting in bash required, Python knowledge would be advantageous)
- Can build software from sources including knowledge of build systems (e.g. Make, CMake...)
- Extensive knowledge of one or more HPC scheduling mechanisms (e.g. Grid Engine, Slurm, LSF... etc.)
- Extensive knowledge of one or more HPC cluster management software packages (e.g. Bright Cluster Manager / Base Command Manager, xCat, OpenHPC… etc.)
- Solid knowledge of computer architectures and multi-threaded/parallel processing applications
- Hands-on knowledge of network- and distributed filesystems (e.g. NFS, GPFS, Gluster, BeeGFS, Lustre or other parallel file systems, etc.)
- Worked in environments with high speed / low latency network (e.g. InfiniBand)
- Strong knowledge of Unix systems performance tuning
- Experience with shared memory and/or GPU and/or distributed memory computation jobs
- Working knowledge of DevOps (e.g. Ansible, Chef, CICD etc.) tools and practices
- Desired: experience setting up, maintaining, and tuning infrastructure for AI/ML workloads
- Desired: experience with HPC infrastructure supporting a scientific / research / pharmaceutical / bioinformatics / cheminformatics environment
- Exceptional service orientation, excellent problem-solving abilities, keen attention to detail.
- Fluent English speaker
Skills Desired
Communication Skills (Inactive), Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Information Technology Operations, IT Service Management (ITSM), Problem Solving Skills (Inactive), System Integration, Vendor ManagementSkills Required
- 6+ years of IT experience, including at least 3 years in an HPC or scientific computing environment
- Associate's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
- Experience designing and building infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or Azure for HPC workloads
- Hands-on Linux system administration experience
- Fluency in Bash shell scripting
- Knowledge of building software from source and build systems such as Make or CMake
- Extensive knowledge of HPC scheduling mechanisms such as Grid Engine, Slurm, or LSF
- Extensive knowledge of HPC cluster management software such as Bright Cluster Manager, Base Command Manager, xCat, or OpenHPC
- Knowledge of computer architectures and multithreaded or parallel processing applications
- Hands-on experience with network and distributed filesystems such as NFS, GPFS, Gluster, BeeGFS, or Lustre
- Experience with high-speed, low-latency networks such as InfiniBand
- Strong knowledge of Unix systems performance tuning
- Experience with shared-memory, GPU, or distributed-memory computation jobs
- Working knowledge of DevOps tools and practices, including Ansible, Chef, or CI/CD
- Python knowledge
- Experience setting up, maintaining, and tuning infrastructure for AI/ML workloads
- Experience supporting scientific, research, pharmaceutical, bioinformatics, or cheminformatics environments
- Exceptional service orientation, problem-solving ability, and attention to detail
- Fluent English speaker
Novartis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Novartis and has not been reviewed or approved by Novartis.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay and benefits are described as a strong overall package, supported by medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside FSAs/HSAs and disability and life coverage. Mental-health support is reinforced through an employee assistance program with psychological support and a network of mental health first aiders.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, with an automatic company contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching in the 401(k). Additional retirement funding is described through an age-based defined contribution program and access to an employee share purchase plan discount.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are framed as robust, including a global minimum of paid parental leave for new parents following birth or adoption. Added supports include domestic partner coverage, dependent-care resources, and benefits such as adoption assistance and child/elder care options.
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The Company
What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
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