Ever wanted to see your infrastructure work show up on a race track?

At most companies, a faster cluster means a report lands a bit sooner. In Formula 1, it means more aerodynamic simulation, quicker answers for the engineers and a faster car.

Every new part on the car starts life as a CFD simulation on the team’s cluster in Milton Keynes, long before it reaches the wind tunnel or the track. F1 limits how much CFD each team can run, so getting more out of every compute hour gives the team a real competitive edge.

You would be the person who owns that platform.

Why you will love it:

• It’s yours. Within your first year you’ll own the whole HPC estate: compute, storage, networking and scheduling. Nobody wants you to just keep the lights on. The team describes the cluster as “continuously evolving, like the car.”
• Your boss has done your job. You’ll work with a leader who did this exact role at Ferrari and still runs benchmarks himself. You’ll never have to explain to him why something matters.
• There’s no ceiling. The title says Manager, but how far you take the role is up to you. If you want to push performance, the team will back you.
• You get to design what comes next. Regulation changes over the next few years could open the door to GPUs and AI-driven approaches. You’ll shape the CPU, GPU and storage roadmap rather than inherit someone else’s.
• You’ll do proper benchmarking. You’ll get hands-on with the latest CPUs and GPUs and test new architectures alongside suppliers. Then you’ll turn the results into decisions that matter.
• There’s room to grow. You’ll start by directing external partners and vendors. The plan is to bring more capability in-house and build a team around you.
• You don’t need to be a CFD expert. You’ll sit alongside a brilliant CFD Methodology team who have the simulation side covered. They need your HPC depth.

What you will be doing:

You’ll keep the CFD cluster fast, reliable and evolving. That means looking after scheduling, parallel file systems, performance tuning, monitoring and capacity planning. When something critical breaks, you’ll lead the troubleshooting, find the root cause and write it up clearly. You’ll also be the go-to person for HPC at the UK site, working closely with engineers in Milton Keynes and Italy.

What you will bring:

• Plenty of HPC experience, typically 8+ years, including real hands-on ownership of on-premises clusters
• Strong Linux skills, plus experience with schedulers (LSF, Slurm or PBS) and parallel file systems (GPFS, Lustre or BeeGFS)
• A rigorous approach to benchmarking and performance tuning
• A structured way of solving problems you’ve never seen before
• Experience getting the best out of vendors, consultants or partners
• Scripting skills (bash, Python) so you can fix things yourself

It’s a bonus if you know IBM Storage Scale or LSF, NICE DCV, GPU computing or Arm, or if you’ve worked in CFD or motorsport.

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