Nextmol is a spin-off company of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. It develops a Software-as-a-Service platform that provides molecular modeling and artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the design of better and greener chemicals.
We are looking for an HPC Sysadmin to help us to bring the platform to the next level.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience
operating and evolving
on‑premise HPC clusters,
with ownership of hardware lifecycle, networking, high availability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
- Strong expertise administering and tuning
Slurm at scale
: (i) Scheduling policies, QoS, fairshare; (ii) Resource accounting, capacity planning, and performance troubleshooting.
- Proven experience designing and operating
distributed storage for HPC
(e.g., Lustre, BeeGFS, Ceph, or equivalent).
- Automation and Infrastructure as Code
skills using
Pulumi, Ansible, Packer
, or equivalent, with strong scripting in
Bash, Python
, or similar.
- Experience with
virtualization, containers, and provisioning tools
: (i) Proxmox, Docker/Podman; (ii) xCAT, Foreman, or similar.
- Expert
Linux system administration
skills (Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux), including tuning and security best practices.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, ability to work autonomously, and act as a
technical reference
within cross‑functional teams.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with
monitoring and reporting platforms
: Grafana, XDMoD, Prometheus, or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience extending on‑prem HPC environments to the cloud using
AWS bursting
, including hybrid Slurm setups, GPU-enabled images, EBS performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Solid experience with
AWS infrastructure and networking
: (i) VPC design, site-to-site VPN, Transit Gateway; (ii) Reliable on‑prem ↔ cloud connectivity
What you will do in Nextmol
Participate in challenging projects in the field of computational chemistry, where your work will have a direct impact on the design and development of new molecules and materials, by:
- Contributing to plan and design the computational chemistry platform.
- Making technical decisions to advance the infrastructure of the platform.
- Coding using best practices.
Who we are and what we want
- A horizontal team where everyone can contribute and learn.
- Multidisciplinary profiles being able to carry out tasks autonomously.
- Software engineers who always want to improve their skills.
Conditions
- Competitive salary, taking into account the qualifications of the candidate.
- Permanent contract.
- We are a small but very motivated team. You will be working in a growing company with great potential to advance personally and professionally.
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