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Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Linux) — 24x7 GPU Data Centre
Remote-first (with 2 days per week down the line once they open their Aztec West office) · £50,000–£65,000 depending on level (L2/L3) · 4-on-4-off shift · Permanent
I'm working with an AI infrastructure company that builds and operates GPU data centres across the UK, converting legacy industrial and energy sites into modern, renewable-powered compute. They're about a year in, backed by around half a billion in investment, running modular data centres packed with Nvidia GPUs, and currently building out their second and third sites. Their compute powers a single, highly technical customer running large-scale AI workloads.
This is genuinely new national infrastructure, and they're standing up the operations function that keeps it running. I'm looking for someone who joins early enough to shape how it works.
What I'm looking for
This isn't a first-line "watch the dashboard and escalate" seat. I need an engineer who owns and resolves.
You'd be the technical owner of live GPU infrastructure performance, reliability and security. When something breaks, you diagnose it, root-cause it and fix it, rather than passing it up the chain. You'd handle genuinely technical incidents and tickets from a technical customer (no end users), coordinate maintenance and change, work closely with the build and site partners, and help design the runbooks, tooling and monitoring that a young operation is still building from scratch.
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Because it's early-stage, there's real autonomy, real visibility with leadership, and a direct hand in how they operate at scale as they grow.
What you'd actually do
- Own and resolve complex incidents across GPU compute, storage, networking and the wider platform, working at the Linux command line rather than escalating first.
- Root-cause analysis and permanent fixes, not just symptom clearing.
- Build and improve monitoring, alerting and automation so the platform runs cleaner over time.
- Coordinate maintenance windows, changes and site work with engineering, field and Smart Hands partners.
- Own technical tickets end to end, keep documentation and knowledge current, and run clean shift handovers.
- Help set the operational standards for a function that's still being built.
What you'll need
- Professional Linux experience. You're comfortable administering and troubleshooting Linux (RHEL or similar) at the command line in a production environment. This is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have.
- An infrastructure background (servers, compute, storage, virtualisation), rather than a purely network one.
- Automation and scripting (Ansible, Python, Bash or similar) and the instinct to build rather than just operate off-the-shelf tools.
- Real incident-resolution experience at 2nd or 3rd line, owning problems through to resolution under SLA.
- You're comfortable working a 24x7, 4-on-4-off shift pattern (12-hour days and nights).
- Eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC), which will be needed within the first year, and a full UK driving licence.
- Located within reach of Bristol for the occasional office day.
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Nice to have
- GPU, HPC or AI infrastructure exposure; monitoring stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, Nagios, SolarWinds); Kubernetes, Terraform or IaC; ITIL awareness; cloud, hosting, data centre or MSP operations.
The shift pattern, honestly
It's a genuine 24x7 shift role including nights, but the 4-on-4-off pattern is predictable and gives you large blocks of time off, effectively around half the month. You'll know your schedule well in advance rather than being permanently on call.
Why I think it's worth a look
Cutting-edge Nvidia GPU infrastructure at real scale, a well-funded company building critical national infrastructure, genuine autonomy to shape how operations run, and the chance to grow with a business that's scaling fast. If you want to own and build rather than just monitor, this is the one.
If that sounds like you, get in touch and I'll tell you more.
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