Radiant
Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer
Gloucestershire, Remote. Posted 7 months ago
The role
You will run and evolve the infrastructure stack across bare-metal, virtualization, and orchestration layers. You will deploy and operate resilient infrastructure for AI/HPC workloads while mentoring teammates and improving automation.
What you will do
- Deploy and operate resilient, scalable infrastructure supporting AI/HPC workloads
- Optimize Linux system configuration, BIOS/firmware, kernel, and disk subsystem for performance
- Configure, monitor and manage bare-metal infrastructure using IPMI, Redfish, etc
- Build and maintain automation scripts and infrastructure as code
- Apply ITSM frameworks: Incident, Major Incident, Change Management, and service improvement
- Maintain and enhance observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, and custom monitoring integrations
- Operate and support services in 24x7 production environments, including on-call rotation
- Contribute to Incident postmortem analyses, root cause analysis, document learnings, and automate remediations
- Mentor junior engineers and act as an Operational requirements consultant to other departments
- Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders and customers
Required qualifications
- 5+ Years Proven experience in globally scaled, performance-intensive environments operating to a 24/7 support model
- Expert-level Linux administration, especially Ubuntu distributions
- Proficiency in system tuning, disk I/O optimization, and hardware-level performance tweaks
- Familiarity with Out of Band management tools (IPMI, Redfish, PXE, etc.)
- Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching
- Strong experience with infrastructure scripting and automation (Bash, Python, Ansible)
- Deep understanding of observability principles and tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Hands-on experience operating orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, MAAS, Tinkerbell)
- Strong grasp of ITSM and service operation best practices
- Excellent communication and mentorship skills
- Comfortable interfacing with internal stakeholders and external customers
Nice to have
- Knowledge of HPC workloads and GPU-based infrastructure
- Experience with InfiniBand networks and HPC performance tuning
- Bachelor or Masters Level degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
- LPIC Certifications
- ITIL Foundation level qualification or equivalent experience
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave
- Dedicated learning time
- Private medical insurance via Bupa
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
- Participation in the company shares program
- Enhanced parental pay & leave
About the company
Radiant designs and operates AI-native cloud platforms engineered for sovereignty, performance, and scale. They build purpose-built AI infrastructure from powered land to compute and software.