Key skills
AnsibleCloudKubernetesLinuxNFSPythonTerraformBashAIML
About this role
Role Overview
- Operate and maintain large-scale Linux environments (bare metal, clusters, cloud)
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure high availability
- Support production and research workloads across multiple environments
- Help scale clusters toward hundreds to thousands of nodes
- Work on systems handling petabyte-scale storage
- Improve performance, reliability, and resource utilisation
- Automate operational tasks using tools like Python, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform
- Improve deployment, provisioning, and system lifecycle management
- Contribute to system design and architecture decisions
- Work closely with HPC / infrastructure teams
- Act as a bridge between users and infrastructure
Requirements
- Strong Linux systems administration experience (core requirement)
- Experience working in large-scale environments: HPC clusters or cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Job schedulers (e.g. Slurm)
- Solid troubleshooting skills across systems, hardware, and networks
- Containers / orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Storage systems (e.g. Ceph, Lustre, NFS)
- Networking fundamentals (Ethernet; InfiniBand is a plus)
- Infrastructure as Code / automation tooling
- GPU or AI/ML experience
Tech Stack
- Ansible
- Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- NFS
- Python
- Terraform
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Benefits
- Opportunity to shape data centre operations from the ground up in a high-growth startup environment
- Chance to contribute to revolutionary projects