Aps 4 / 5-6 (S&t Level 3-4) - High Performance

$71,207 - $97,790 (plus Super)
- Edinburgh - SA

**The Role**

You will plan, install, configure and maintain HPC network hardware and associated software ensuring the security, integrity and separation of access of data processed within the state of the art facility.

The HPC Network Specialist will prepare, implement and manage the HPC Centre Networks and classified research network interface to enable/troubleshoot remote access and data visualisation for HPC users.

**Duties**:

- Build and maintain HPC network systems, evaluate and recommend solutions, plan and execute implementation towards robust, secure, stable and performant networks.
- Maintain currency with HPC interconnect technologies such as Infiniband, HPC network topologies, as well as ethernet.
- Maintain familiarity with the appropriate security, privacy and communications protocols to ensure security, integrity and separation of data within the HPC capability.
- Undertake all aspects of network administration within the HPC context.
- Take ownership of the secure and reliable connection of external research networks to the HPC capability.

**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 world-class 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.