Claremont Consulting Solutions Ltd
Derby, Derbyshire
Feb 05, 2026
Contractor
Our leading consultancy client requires an HPC expert with experience in the following areas: Skill Set and Knowledge Domain Requirements: Conduct interviews with the Customer staff covering the following areas: Current infrastructure & use cases of HPC. Collation of findings for presentation in a written report covering: Market view of container technologies and options for HPC Use Cases Solution Discovery Containerisation capabilities workshop and discussion of typical HPC/ML workloads Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Job Scheduling (Slurm at Kubernetes), Run:AI and GPU slicing, Jupyter ecosystem (Hubs/Labs/Notebooks) for Data Scientists workflows Evaluating Kubernetes vs. Beowulf cluster architectures for HPC. Skillset and knowledge gap analysis of the team with respect to: Best practices for MPI-optimized container images, including OpenMPI with Apptainer (SIF), Podman/Buildah tooling, and other alternatives.