Lead Linux Platform Engineer

Graphcore; Bristol (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking a hands-on Linux Engineering Lead to shape and operate the Linux platforms that underpin our engineering environments. You will lead a small team while driving automation, reliability and operational excellence across the Linux infrastructure used by Graphcore's engineering organisation.

While this role includes leadership responsibilities, it will initially require hands-on involvement in troubleshooting, system support, and automation, with scaling processes and team

Qualifications

• Significant experience administering Linux environments at scale.
• Strong troubleshooting 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.

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.

Skills

Linux administration

Troubleshooting

Team leadership

Automation scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Git-based workflows

CI/CD pipelines

Incident management

Communication

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Graphcore is seeking a hands-on Linux Engineering Lead to shape and operate the Linux platforms that underpin our engineering environments. You will lead a small team while driving automation, reliability and operational excellence across the Linux infrastructure used by Graphcore's engineering organisation.

While this role includes leadership responsibilities, it will initially require hands-on involvement in troubleshooting, system support, and automation, with scaling processes and team