El 1 - Fishermans Bend, Australia - Australian Government Department of Defence

Australian Government Department of Defence

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Fishermans Bend, Australia

1 week ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

beBee Recruiter

Description

The Role

The HPC Systems Manager oversees the installation, integration, administration and day to day operation of high-performance computing systems and system interfaces.

The successful applicant will be responsible for the effective management of a highly sensitive, secure and complex research ICT environment, and will need to have an in-depth knowledge of contemporary technologies, practices and principles within a HPC expertise.

Duties:

Under limited direction, demonstrate responsibility for the overall management and administration of HPC Systems.
Manage the HPC compute services capability.
Responsible for the delivery of highly complex HPC compute services, quality and service improvements.
Provide leadership and supervision to the HPC compute services team.
Liaise and negotiate with stakeholders recognising their priorities and developing solutions to meet their needs and expectations.

About our Team
Research Technology and Operations Division (RTO) delivers specialist capabilities to Defence Innovation Science and Technology (IS&T).

RTO comprises a professional workforce of engineers, technicians, computational scientists and other staff who provide a wide range of highly specialised and unique research capability and innovative solutions delivering advanced research platforms for defence, national security and the wider IS&T ecosystem.

RTO capabilities accelerate and protect Defences science and technology advances and promote a collaborative, compliant, safe and healthy workplace.

RTOs work areas include:

Emerging digital science capabilities, including computational and data intensive science, research data and information and laboratory and experimental systems
Scientific computing including the development and acquisition of a worldclass secure High Performance Computing (HPC) capability for advance modelling and simulation
Nationally recognised, unique and novel research engineering capabilities
Development and implementation of the Outstanding Research Infrastructure Powering Innovation pillar, a major component of the

More Together:
Defence Science and Technology Strategy 2030

Defence innovation, science and technology compliance, assurance and sovereignty through complex research safety, research security, workforce capability and talent and scientific resource management. RTO also provides specialised research enabling capabilities to other groups and services with Defence, the Australian Intelligence communities, our allies and/or our partners in industry and academia.

The Scientific Computing (SC) branch enables and accelerates Defence science and technology research and protects assets in DSTG's digital research environments.

SC does this by provisioning and supporting scientific computing infrastructure that is well-managed, sustainable and scalable; continuing to invest in innovative centralised digital research infrastructure and services, while divesting commodity distributed ICT infrastructure and services; and developing new Scientific Computing practises and technologies.

The Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) directorate provides secure, effective and efficient digital research and eResearch infrastructure and related systems where a sovereign capability is required for Defence's S&T capabilities.

Specifically, DRI is responsible for:

High performance computing (HPC)
Science Research Computing Environment (SRCE)
Common research computational environments on HPC and SRCE
Research data storage and data security
Core research networks and cloud services
Research wide area networks (WANS)
Administration of research data bases
Research Infrastructure Systems.

They should be able to work independently as well as part of a team and have a passion for learning and keeping up with emerging technologies and industry trends.

Application Closing Date:
Monday 15 May, 2023

Salary:
$108, $122,044.00 per year