Infrastructure Engineer New London, England, United Kingdom

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the end to end hardware lifecycle of networking, CPU compute and GPU training hardware, such as the Nvidia DGX platform.
• Managing data centre operations day to day, ensuring that all maintenance tasks are performed proactively, including hardware monitoring and troubleshooting, disaster recovery testing and generally keeping our hardware up and running.
• Working with PXE booting to provision racked nodes, Ansible for configuration, Terraform for VMware deployments and Helm for Kubernetes deployments.
• Troubleshooting systems using observability tooling and strong knowledge of Linux.
• Configuring our network switch devices, ensuring DNS/DHCP/IPAM is maintained.
• Co ordinating with hardware vendors, managed service providers, Smart Hands and other external contacts to drive improvements to our infrastructure.

Who we're looking for:

• Experience working in a data centre environment.
• Experience with networking configuration and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable troubleshooting Linux systems - we use Ubuntu.
• Experience with configuration management tooling - we use Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with bare metal provisioning - we use PXE booting to automate hardware OS installs.
• Broad knowledge of the infrastructure that supports an application in a distributed system - operating systems, observability tooling, networking, storage, databases, monitoring, cloud providers, containers, container orchestration tools.
• Documenting actions so that you and others can repeat them, and eventually automate them.
• Love learning on the job and going deep into any subject.
• Excellent written and verbal communication - you know when to go synchronous and when to go async.

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, birthday celebrations, private medical and dental for you and your family, global working opportunities, generous holiday allowance and pension/401K matching, a working from home allowance for tech or home office equipment, and an inclusive parental leave policy designed to support employees globally.

Our inclusive culture

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 or marital status. We actively welcome diversity and strive for a culture where every voice is heard and respected.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

Speechmatics is an equal opportunity employer and values people of all identities and backgrounds. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all employees can thrive.