Linux Engineering Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Linux engineers
• Own the reliability, performance and scalability of engineering Linux environments
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps practices
• Build automation that reduces operational overhead and improves consistency
• Lead major incident response and root cause analysis activities
• Partner with software, platform and infrastructure teams to support evolving engineering requirements
• Establish standards, tooling and processes that enable systems to scale efficiently
• Improve observability, monitoring and operational visibility across the estate
• Help define the future direction of Linux platform engineering at Graphcore

Requirements

• Significant experience administering Linux environments at scale
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, networking, storage and applications
• Experience leading engineers, projects or operational initiatives
• Strong automation and scripting skills (Python, Bash or similar)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform or Puppet
• Experience working with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience managing production incidents and driving operational improvements
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting AI, HPC or large-scale engineering environments
• Experience with observability platforms and monitoring systems
• Experience working alongside platform engineering, SRE or DevOps teams
• Knowledge of identity and access management
• Experience building or scaling operational processes

About the Company

Graphcore is building the future of AI compute, creating the complete AI compute stack from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.