Senior CAE Infrastructure & HPC Specialist

Every day, we get opportunities to make a positive impact – on our colleagues, partners, customers, and society. Together, we’re pioneering the solutions of the future and unlocking the full potential of precious resources. Trusted to act on initiative, we challenge conventional thinking to develop world-leading technologies that inspire progress in vital areas, including energy, food, water, and shipping.

As we push forward, the innovative, open spirit that fuels our 140-year-old start-up culture and rapid growth also drives our personal growth. So, as we shape a more resourceful, less wasteful world, we build our careers too.

About the job

In this role, you will help ensure that the systems and computing environments supporting Alfa Laval’s engineering work are available, secure, reliable and easy to use. Supporting approximately 300 CAE users globally, you will work with the Specialist CAE, IT Infrastructure, PLM and CAD teams to maintain and improve the technical environment used by our engineering organization.

The role combines user support, infrastructure administration and continuous improvement, including contributing to Alfa Laval’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based cluster with Slurm as the workload manager. You will handle both day-to-day support and longer-term improvements, and may occasionally need to provide support outside regular office hours when urgent system incidents or critical planned activities require it.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical support to CAE users
• Investigate user needs and help identify effective technical solutions
• Manage the installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of CAE-related applications.

• Support and maintain Linux-based computing environments
• Contribute to the administration of high-performance computing resources
• Help ensure systems are secure, stable and up to date
• Create and maintain scripts to automate tasks and improve efficiency
• Analyze recurring problems and recommend improvements that reduce incidents and improve user experience.
• Collaborate with users, IT teams and other technical specialists

This position is based in either Lund or Flemingsberg and reports to the Manager Operations Applications & Infrastructure.

Who are you

You are a curious and solution-oriented professional who enjoys learning and understanding the technical challenges behind users’ needs. You bring structure to problem solving, remain service-minded when supporting others and communicate clearly with both users and colleagues. You work collaboratively, share knowledge and contribute to a positive and effective technical environment.

What you know

You bring extensive experience supporting technical users and maintaining infrastructure in environments where system availability, reliability and performance are important. To succeed in this role, you have:

• At least 10 years of professional experience in similar systems support, infrastructure engineering, Linux administration or technical operations role.
• Excellent technical knowledge of Linux, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Experience creating and maintaining scripts in one or more of the following:
  • Linux shell
  • PowerShell
  • Windows batch/CMD
  • Python
• Experience installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting software applications and operating systems.
• An interest in understanding technical challenges from the user’s perspective and translating user needs into effective technical solutions.
• A university level Engineering degree

It is an advantage if you have experience with

• Software licence management.
• Active Directory.
• Out-of-band management.
• InfiniBand.
• High-performance computing environments.
• Slurm or other workload-management systems.
• Supporting users in a distributed or international environment

For more information, please contact

Cassandra Candin, Manager Operations Applications & Infrastructure at [email protected] or Raquel Herndon, Talent Acquisition Partner at [email protected]

For union information in Lund, please contact: 

Johan Ranhög, Akademikerna, [email protected]

Monica Anderberg, Unionen, [email protected]

Stefan Sandell, Ledarna, [email protected]

For union information in Stockholm, please contact   

Axel Schäring, Akademikerna, [email protected]   

Anders Jansson, Unionen, [email protected]

We are conducting a continuous review of received applications.

We do not accept applications via email, due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Please send your application no later than November 15th, 2026. We will remove the job advert from our website as soon as we have found the right candidate, so don't wait too long!

At Alfa Laval, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive and dynamic workplace that values diverse perspectives and experiences. While we typically welcome applicants from all locations, for this particular role, we are prioritizing candidates who are currently residing in Lund or Flemingsberg, or have an established presence in these areas.

Our commitment to integrity
We care about diversity, inclusion, and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.

As part of Alfa Laval’s commitment to a safe and healthy workplace, we conduct background checks on final candidates for this role, and alcohol and drug testing is applied during the pre‑employment process.

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