Capability Lead – High Performance Computer and Analytical Computing, Submarines

Rolls-Royce

  • Derby
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 15 days ago
Job DescriptionCapability LeadFull TimeDerbyWhy Rolls-Royce?An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join our Submarines business as a Capability Leadwithin the HPC and Analytical Computing IT provision based in Derby.Reporting to the Chief of PLM and Engineering IT, you will work closely with our customer, local Engineering Analysts, and the specialists within the wider Rolls-Royce Group to ensure our analytical computing capability, including our HPCs, is well maintained, fit-for-purpose, and will meet future business demand. You will be actively working with Jacobs, Rolls-Royce IT, MOD and KTP to ensure the analysis capability is used and maintained to industry standard whilst maintaining the required collaboration capabilities and still meeting the expectations of end users.At the moment, significant investment is being made in our high-performance computing capability to provide both business continuity and enable a step change in performance in our engineering analysis tools. This will include a £5m investment for new cluster hardware, increase in storage capacity, and upgrade our analysis tools to the very latest versions of software. This is the latest refresh on a 5-yearly drum beat which this role will drive and coordinate from a Rolls-Royce perspective to ensure our engineering analysis capability remains fit-for-purpose and enables our vision for future integrated methods.Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.What you will be doing:In this role you manage the loading and scheduling of work and report on system performance and utilisation on the MOD HPC environments to ensure maximum usage, whilst enabling high priority emergent work, as well as:
  • Day-to-day decision-making on share and priority of compute and visualisation nodes on the MOD HPC environments.
  • Manage the migration of analysis capability to new HPC environments and data storage systems and provide technical requirements to the commissioning and decommissioning of HPCs.
  • Communicating and managing HPC processes and change control with the stakeholders including being the point of contact for users and the system providers.
  • Manage access permissions and user groups, including advising on NTK permission groups within current process.
  • Represent Rolls-Royce Submarines at HPC Stakeholder meetings with the Customer and Jacobs. Reporting on usage, storage and issues at this meeting.
  • Provide advice and guidance on bespoke analysis tools and their implementation to the analysis community.
  • Work with the RR exchange team to ensure that data transfer processes between the analysis systems are efficient and monitored, including day-to-day approval of transfers from the HPC system.
  • Coordinate licensing updates and procurement with the RR and MoD licensing teams.
  • Be involved in and lead the determination of the future strategy for analysis tools, with engineering specialists and analysts within RR Submarines. Whilst maintaining visibility of up-and-coming HPC technologies in collaboration with the University Technology Centres.
  • Coordinate testing of new features and functionality.
Who we are looking for:At part of Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate evidence of the following elements:
  • Have some working-level experience of High-Performance Computers and their use or similar environments.
  • Educated to degree-level or equivalent in a relevant engineering or IT discipline.
  • Familiar with a large range of design and analysis software.
  • Demonstrate a track-record of delivery.
  • Comfortable operating in a customer-facing role with excellent communication and influencing skills, with ability to interact effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders.
  • Well organised.
  • Experience of managing Engineering projects, from a resourcing, scheduling and performance perspective.
We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at .To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place.Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.Closing date: 22nd May 2024Job CategoryMechanical SystemsPosting Date15 May 2024; 00:05

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