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HPC Production Engineer

Jump Trading
🇬🇧LondonSeniorFull-timePosted May 19, 2026

About the Role

Join Jump Trading Group's global High Performance Computing Team as a Production Engineer in our London office. The ideal candidate would be a hands-on individual, highly skilled in the details and nuances of managing Linux environments with a strong software development background necessary to support uniquely customized systems at scale.

  • Design, implement, maintain, and support high performance compute and storage systems
  • Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems
  • Monitor systems and storage performance, up to and including network components
  • Build tooling to compile, package, install, and upgrade software and operating system components at scale
  • Collaborate with team members and across teams to write code and testing infrastructures spanning both new and existing codebases

Requirements

  • At least 5+ years of professional experience in high performance computing (HPC), including parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS), batch systems (e.g., Slurm, Grid Engine); high-performance network interconnects experience is a plus, but not required
  • At least 5+ years of experience with Linux systems administration
  • High proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, C)
  • Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complicated, interdependent, and distributed systems
  • Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks (debuggers and profilers)
  • Experience with system configuration management tools (SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
  • A compulsion to perform root cause analysis
  • Reliable and predictable availability
  • Hands-on individual, highly skilled in the details and nuances of managing Linux environments with a strong software development background necessary to support uniquely customized systems at scale

What You'll Get

  • Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
  • Travel Medical Insurance
  • Group Pension Scheme
  • Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Parking and Commuter Benefits