Linux Engineering Lead
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Graphcore
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
About Graphcore
Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a British semiconductor company building Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for AI workloads. Founded in Bristol in 2016, it was acquired by SoftBank in 2024. It is a portfolio company of Molten Ventures.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead a small team while operating and improving the Linux platforms that support engineering environments. Drive automation, reliability, incident response, observability, and operational standards through hands-on troubleshooting, system support, and infrastructure engineering.
Requirements
- Linux administration
- Systems troubleshooting
- Networking
- Storage
- Application support
- Team leadership
- Project leadership
- Python
- Bash
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Puppet
- Git
- CI/CD
- Incident management
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Identity and access management
- AI infrastructure
- HPC
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of Linux engineers
- Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of engineering Linux environments
- Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps adoption
- Build operational automation
- Lead major incident response and root cause analysis
- Partner with software, platform, and infrastructure teams
- Establish standards, tooling, and scalable operational processes
- Improve observability, monitoring, and operational visibility
- Define the future direction of Linux platform engineering
