Lead Technology Specialist - Scientific Computing & Linux Systems

Lead Technology Specialist

Job Description:

Job Description: Date: 14.07.2026 

Role: Lead Technology Specialist 

Number of positions: 1 

Description: 

Airbus has embarked on a digital transformation journey, and the Digital organization at Airbus India plays a key role in enabling this through advanced digital capabilities and technologies. 

We are seeking a proactive and innovative technology specialist to operate, maintain, and enhance Scientific Computing managed compute environments. The role focuses on Linux/RedHat platforms with exposure to heterogeneous environments, HPC scheduling, and enterprise-grade automation (Git, Ansible) with experience in AI tools for quality improvements and automation. 

Beyond administration, this role requires someone who can challenge the status quo, drive automation, and propose innovative improvements in Scientific Computing environments. The position offers hands-on experience with HPC clusters, interactive services, automation frameworks, and international collaboration with Airbus engineering and IT teams. 

Qualification & Experience: 

 8+ years of working experience in IT working on Linux environments (RHEL) with development experience. ● Strong Linux/RedHat system administration skills for Installing, managing Scientific Computing applications and Performance Analysis and debugging real time application execution. 

Storage Infrastructure & Data Lifecycle Management

• Design & Engineering: Architectural planning, deployment, and administration of parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre, IBM Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS) and scalable object storage solutions.

• Performance Engineering: Continuous monitoring of storage I/O performance; identification and mitigation of I/O bottlenecks to ensure throughput requirements for compute workloads are met.

• Data Lifecycle Strategy: Preparing for the future implementation of tiered storage concepts (HSM/ILM) to enable automated data migration across different performance tiers (hot-to-cold archiving).

Network Architecture & Troubleshooting

• Advanced Diagnostics: Analyzing complex interdependencies between storage backends, file systems, and fabric architectures.

• Protocol Analysis: Utilizing deep packet inspection tools (e.g., tcpdump, Wireshark) and performance profiling suites (e.g., fio, perf, iostat) to isolate packet loss, latency jitter, or metadata lock contention.

• Interconnect Optimization: Performance tuning of low-latency network configurations (InfiniBand/Ethernet) with a specific focus on RDMA protocols (RoCE/iWARP).

Access Control, Security & Compliance

• Identity & Access Governance: Managing NFS (v3/v4) and SMB/CIFS exports, taking into account multi-tenant structures and cross-cluster access.

• Hardening & Compliance: Enforcing network-level export policies (CIDR-based) and implementing POSIX-compliant ACLs as well as POSIX group mappings via LDAP/NIS.

• Data Security: Ensuring data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption in compliance with regulatory standards (GDPR, Export Control) and institutional security policies.

Workload & User Enablement

• Data Movement: Orchestrating large-scale data transfers using specialized tools (e.g., XCP, Aspera, Globus).

• Consulting & Optimization: Advising users on I/O-efficient application development and best practices for highly scalable workflows.

Candidate Profile (Skills)

• Expertise: Deep knowledge in administering HPC storage stacks and distributed file systems (POSIX-compliant).

• Network Stack: Expert knowledge of TCP/IP networking, InfiniBand fabrics, routing & switching, and RDMA technologies.

• Automation: Experience in automating provisioning and configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Bash/Python).

• Containers & Orchestration: Solid understanding of integrating storage solutions into containerized environments (Singularity/Apptainer, Kubernetes).

● Good understanding of ITIL processes (Incident, Change, Problem, Service Management); certification preferred. 

● Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills, able to diagnose, reproduce, and resolve complex issues. 

● Experience in stakeholder management and user support, with ability to adapt to evolving business processes. 

Good understanding of server architecture and Engineering applications.

● Knowledge on AI tools (Copilot, Gemini Coding Assistant) for Quality improvement, Automation and Value generation. 

● Understanding and experience in Cloud technologies (preferably AWS) and contributing to building cloud ready solutions. (Bonus points if Certified). 

● Excellent communication skills to work in a globally distributed team 

Responsibilities: 

• Operate, maintain, and optimize Scientific Computing environments (Linux/RedHat, HPC clusters, scheduling systems). 

•  Develop and maintain legacy codebases, new codebases and automation scripts. 

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Scientific Computing Applications, its installation, dependency management and performance. 

•  Apply ITIL processes in daily operations (Incident/Change/Problem Management). 

• Proactively challenge existing workflows and propose innovative improvements to enhance efficiency and user experience. 

•  Collaborating with business users and relevant stakeholders to define project requirements, scope and deliverables. 

• Provide day-to-day support for production processing by solving incidents and requests raised by the user community and an ongoing event and alert management 

• Analyze and propose/implement to Improve incident resolution quality. 

• Perform incident categorisation/classification & find out critical issues/most popular incidents and do root cause analysis 

• Perform root cause analysis for critical incidents & trend analysis for proactive measures 

• Participate in Agile Development activities and deliver features for fix/improvement of the service Apply DevOps and AI tools, culture and mindset for all your activities on a daily basis 

• Excellent communication skills to work in a globally distributed team 

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives on demand.

• Engage and motivate the people (involved and stakeholders / customers) to promote Self-reflection, Self-management, Communication and Teamwork.

• Manage Conflicts and Negotiation to achieve optimized results for the business.

• Define and develop the objectives hierarchy of the project or product using appropriate strategies, methods and tools.

• Engage stakeholders in a governance that ensures effective use of time, budget and achievement of quality.

• Integrate processes and people from other functions (matrix organizations).

• Ensure effective integration of lessons learnt. Ensure active risk and opportunity and contract (internal or external) management.

• Ensure effective management of partners and suppliers.

Success Metrics: 

Success will be measured in a variety of areas, including but not limited to: 

● Consistently ensure the on-time delivery and quality (first-time-right) of the projects ● Bring innovative cost effective solutions 

● Achieve the customer satisfaction 

● Ability to handle a subject from demand management, to development and support ● Ability to challenge the needs of the clients and provide appropriate solutions 

● Compliance with security and ITIL best practices. 

Travel 

Willingness to travel for long & short term to Europe 

**Airbus is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to create an inclusive and diverse work environment. AGI selects job applicants (internal and external) on the basis of suitability for the job, and irrespective of gender, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, religion, ethnicity or different abled/ (dis)ability. 

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus India Private Limited

Employment Type:

Permanent

-------

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Digital

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.