LUMI Operations Manager

LUMI is Europe’s most powerful supercomputer and the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world. LUMI offers European researchers a world-class tool for understanding complicated phenomena, such as climate change. LUMI is owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, and it is run by a consortium of 11 countries with long traditions and knowledge of scientific computing. LUMI has been set up in Kajaani, in one of the world’s greenest data centres, hosted by CSC.

As the Operations Manager of the LUMI supercomputer, you will contribute in reaching flawless operations of the supercomputer and thereby generating value for research scientists in academia and industry to address the grand challenges in our society.

What you will be doing:

• Leading LUMI’s incident, change and problem management processes
• Liaising with LUMI system administrators, storage administrators, data center team, data center networks team, user support team etc. to be on top of things
• Providing technical expertise
• Carrying out the service owner role for certain components of the infrastructure
• Describing, implementing and optimizing processes
• Making and implementing operational plans
• Conducting and developing operations monitoring and reporting
• Managing performance of the system vendor and related support contracts
• Handling risk management and ensuring compliance with standards requirements

You will join a team in an inspiring working environment where you will have a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge supercomputer technology, expand your skills and advance your career. The role can be based in either Kajaani or Espoo. You will report to the Director of CSC Advanced Computing Facility – Operations and Systems.