Systems Administrator

Innovative Technology start-up seeks an accomplished Systems Administrator to maintain internal systems and provide a compute platform to operate their simulation, optimization and AI technology at scale. You should have strong Linux server management experience (ideally Ubuntu), experience operating distributed computing or cluster environments and large data storage. 

Hybrid working would involve a minimum of 3 days in the Cambridge office with occasional visits to Stevenage and Coventry as required.  A generous salary package is on offer with 30 days holiday plus Bank Holidays and time off between Xmas and New Year, private healthcare, Share options, pension and more.

Working with engineers to deliver hosted tools to deliver results more effectively, the successful Systems Administrator will have significant influence on the choice of deployment technology for the backends. Your responsibilities will include Compliance and security of IT systems, physically installing server hardware, supporting HPC / machine learning workloads behind APIs as well as maintaining internal compute systems.

Your knowledge and skills should include:

• Proven Linux server management experience ( ideally Ubuntu).
• Container based deployment such as Kubernetes, Podman or Docker.
• Experience with DRBD, Btrfs, Btrbk, NFS or similar technologies.
• Server networking, VLANs, DNS, firewalls.
• Experience with operating distributed computing or cluster environments such as Slurm.
• VPNs ( company uses Wireguard).
• Large data storage.
• Competence in hardware diagnostics and component replacement.
• Windows and Entra, support of macOS.

If you are a highly experienced Systems Administrator and have an interest with physics based simulation and are keen to support ML / AI systems, this is a great opportunity to be part of a thriving Company where technology meets sustainability.