At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and develop a team of Infrastructure Engineers while ensuring operational stability.
- Company: Innovative AI research company focused on collaboration and growth.
- Benefits: Flexible working, competitive salary, health benefits, and generous holiday allowance.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive environment with plenty of opportunities for personal and professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in AI infrastructure and support your team's career growth.
- Qualifications: Experience in infrastructure leadership, strong coaching skills, and a passion for learning.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
We're looking for an Infrastructure Team Lead to take ownership of the systems that power our AI research and development, ranging from bare metal GPU clusters through to the internal services our engineers rely on every day. This is a broad role with technical depth and people leadership. You will set the technical direction of the Infrastructure team, drive reliability and continuous improvements across the stack – from physical layer through to the software layer. Additionally, you will be investing in your engineers through 1:1s, coaching and creating career development opportunities. We’re a team that gets things done properly and multiplies the impact of others. If that sounds like an exciting problem, we’d love to talk.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading, managing, and developing a team of Infrastructure Engineers, setting clear objectives and fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture
- Conducting regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and development planning to build technical capability and support career progression
- Owning operational stability across our infrastructure, including hardware monitoring, troubleshooting and disaster recovery testing
- Acting as the escalation point for technical and operational issues, leading major incident response and driving resolution
- Leading infrastructure strategy, including capacity and project planning
- Driving standardisation, automation and optimisation to reduce toil
- Leading vendor relationships with hardware vendors, managed service providers and other external contacts
Who We Are Looking For
- Proven experience in an Infrastructure Team Lead or Senior Engineer role, with strong people management and coaching skills
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, including setting objectives and supporting career development
- A desire to go deep into any subject and a genuine love of learning on the job
- Broad knowledge of the infrastructure supporting distributed systems — operating systems, observability tooling, networking, storage, containers and container orchestration
- Comfortable troubleshooting Linux systems (we use Ubuntu)
- Solid experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling — we use Terraform and Ansible extensively
- Experience with bare metal provisioning — we use PXE booting to automate hardware OS installs
- Strong networking configuration and troubleshooting skills, including DNS/DHCP/IPAM
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels and report up and out
What We Can Offer You
No matter what stage of your career you’re at – from paid internships and first‑job opportunities through to management and senior positions – we’ll support you with the training and development needed to reach your career aspirations with us. There really is no shortage of opportunities here for you to get involved and collaborate with those around you to deliver your best work. We offer incredibly flexible working, regular company lunches, and birthday celebrations. From Private Medical, and Dental for you and your family, through to global working opportunities, a generous holiday allowance and pension/401K matching, we want to make sure our employees and their families are looked after. Every employee will receive a working from home allowance for tech or home office equipment (on top of your choice of laptop and accessories of course). Our approach to parental leave is designed to support employees globally. While this varies by geo, we have support in place for parents (including adoption assistance and reproductive health services) to ensure they have the time and financial resources needed to care for their growing families.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We welcome different experiences, viewpoints, and identities. For us, it’s not just the right thing to do; it’s our catalyst for sparking innovation and creativity. Our teams thrive in an environment that celebrates and supports everyone – no matter their gender, identity or expression, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, marital status, national origin, veteran status, pregnancy, or maternity status.
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