Research Engineer – DevOps, AI Factory (RE3) Research Engineer – DevOps, AI Factory (RE3) Starting date: asap The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress.

BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D; into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries. BSC-CNS YouTube Channel We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research.

The Barcelona Supercomputing

Center (BSC) is seeking a Research Engineer to join the AI Institute as part of the AI Factory initiative. The AI Factory is a European project accelerating AI adoption across industry sectors, particularly supporting SMEs and startups while strengthening the European innovation ecosystem. The AI Factory, which utilizes MareNostrum5's specialized AI partition, relies on the secure and efficient management, sharing, and analysis of diverse and often sensitive datasets, including public administration and health data.

The Data Innovation

Group designs and delivers the Data Services that support this ecosystem: Data as a Service, Data Discovery, Data Stewardship, Model and Dataset Publication, and Trusted Research Environments (TREs) for sensitive data.

The work covers three complementary areas: deployment and operation of TRE platforms, including the integration of an external certified TRE service, support for internally developed platforms,



and a secure HPC environment on the MareNostrum5 AI partition; development and deployment of the group's internal platforms and tooling, such as a research data hub for dataset and model publication and HPC workflow automation services, which are being scaled from AI Factory use to center-wide services. This position provides an opportunity to build secure data infrastructure and research platforms at supercomputing scale, combining infrastructure automation, platform engineering, and information security practices, and supporting AI adoption across European public and private sectors. This project is funded by the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, in accordance with Council Regulation (EU) 2020/2094 of 14 December 2020, and regulated by Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2021, in the context of the BSC AI Factory project.

This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No and Spain, Portugal, Romania and Türkiye. It is also co-funded by the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service and counts with the support of the Government of Catalonia. Contribute to the development, deployment, and operation of internal data platforms and tooling, including web-based services for dataset and model publication and workflow automation pipelines on HPC infrastructure.

Contribute to the development, deployment, and operation of TRE platforms and their supporting infrastructure, including virtualized environments, containerized services, and isolated HPC partitions. Implement security controls across data services environments, including identity and access management, encryption at rest and in transit, and audit logging. Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment,



and monitoring using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices.

Integrate platforms with BSC institutional systems, in coordination with the Operations department (identity management, networking, monitoring, incident response). Support secure data ingress and egress workflows, including staging areas, pseudonymization services, and output control tooling. Provide technical support to researchers and AI Factory users working with the data services and TRE platforms.

Contribute to documenting architectures, procedures, and best practices for platform operations and secure data handling. BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, or similar.

Experience administering Linux systems in production environments.

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes is a plus).

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Experience deploying and operating web applications and services (backend services, databases, reverse proxies).

Experience implementing security controls: access management, network segmentation, encryption, logging and monitoring. Good fluency in both spoken and written English. Familiarity with information security standards (ISO 27001) or secure research environments (TRE, Five Safes) is a plus.

Experience with web development (JavaScript, React, or similar frontend frameworks) is a plus. Python, Bash). Good knowledge of networking and system security fundamentals.

We offer a full-time contract (35h/week) adaptable working hours extensive training plan private health insurance Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration Holidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement Starting date: asap We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law. #

📌 Research Engineer - DevOps, AI Factory (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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