SURF · Standplaats: Utrecht · 4 maart 2026
HPC Administrator
Do you want to contribute to the daily management and improvement of the Dutch National Supercomputer Snellius? Are you a system administrator that wants to provide top tier High Performance Computing (HPC) services, develop (secure) computing services, and manage a reliable and secure facility. Then we have the perfect challenge for you!
Where you will work
SURF is the ICT cooperative for Dutch educational and research institutions. Together with them, we work on digital services and complex innovation challenges to enhance the quality of education and research. As an HPC administrator, you will contribute significantly to this by ensuring that researchers have access to top tier HPC facilities.
The team you will join
You will be joining the HPC Services team. This team is responsible for hosting, maintaining, and supporting users on the National Supercomputer Snellius. You will collaborate with the other system administrators and advisors in the HPC Services team but also work closely with the other HPC team at SURF - the HPC Development team.
Together the HPC Services and HPC Development are responsible for various computing services and the associated user and application support, including supporting the National Supercomputer Snellius, the LUMI pre-exascale Supercomputer, HPCV Services and SURF's Experimental Technologies Platform. The teams focus, among other things, on providing users of the SURF (and international) infrastructures with permanent access to the most appropriate hardware and software solutions. We assist users in efficiently using new technologies and methods, enabling them to make effective use of the available infrastructure. In this way, we contribute to our mission of facilitating top-level Dutch research.
What you will do
Picture it for a moment: in this position, you will work with Snellius, the Dutch National Supercomputer. You'll be right on top of Snellius' advanced computing infrastructure, with an impressive 240,000 cores, 640 GPUs and a staggering peak performance of around 30 Pflops/s. As our new HPC administrator, it will be up to you to manage and continuously improve Snellius and the OSSC (ODISSEI secure supercomputer) environment to the best of your ability.
Other tasks you will handle
Your skills and experience
You are curious about new techniques and advanced HPC environments. You are analytically strong, look ahead, and have a proactive attitude. You have good communication skills and your experience with various (cluster) environments, scripting languages and technologies complete the picture.
In addition, you have:
Prior to starting this job, a VOG must be presented .
SURF takes pleasure in doing its recruitment itself; acquisition is therefore not appreciated.
Applying for a job at SURF
This is what you can expect
Apply
After submitting your application, you will immediately receive a confirmation e-mail.
Response
After the the closing date, you will receive a response from our recruitment team.
First interview
We invite you to our office, because we want to get to know you.
Second interview
We invite you again for an interview with others who also want to get to know you.
Assessment
We may ask you to do an assignment (assessment).
Are you the right person?
Then you will receive a salary offer from one of our HR advisors.
Welcome to SURF!
You join onboarding activities with other new colleagues.
Location Science Park, 140, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, Netherlands Employment Fixed term with permanent employment intention Salary €4791 - €7786 Hours per week 32 to 40 hours Deadline 22 March 2026 Substantive questions
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