Senior Infrastructure Ops Engineer – APAC (Remote + Equity)

lightningai; United States; Remote; USD 128,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement savings support

Wellness stipend

Work-from-home stipend

Sabbatical after four years

Job summary

lightningai is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to manage a large GPU and bare-metal compute fleet. You will own end-to-end operations across Linux, hardware, storage, and orchestration with a strong automation mindset.

The role is remote with a Singapore base, requiring weekday daytime hours and on-call rotation. Expect a base salary SGD 165,000–220,000 plus discretionary bonus and equity.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting Linux-based infrastructure at scale.
• Practical experience with bare-metal servers, GPUs, and the surrounding hardware and kernel stack.
• Familiarity with hardware management and provisioning interfaces such as PXE, BMC, IPMI, Redfish, or iDRAC.
• Experience with distributed or high-performance storage systems (e.g., VAST, Ceph, GPFS, or WEKA).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Operate and troubleshoot production infrastructure across Linux servers, GPUs, networking, storage, and orchestration systems.
• Serve as the escalation point for hard problems, driving incidents from initial investigation through root-cause analysis and resolution.
• Own end-to-end operational workflows including provisioning, configuration, validation, maintenance, remediation, and decommissioning.
• Build automation and internal tooling that removes repetitive work and lets the fleet scale without linear headcount growth.
• Identify recurring failure modes and partner with infra engineering teams to make systems more reliable and repeatable.
• Participate in a primary/secondary on-call rotation supporting production infrastructure.

Skills

Linux administration

Tools

PXE

BMC

IPMI

Redfish

iDRAC

VAST

Ceph

GPFS

WEKA

GitOps

Job description

lightningai is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to manage a large GPU and bare-metal compute fleet. You will own end-to-end operations across Linux, hardware, storage, and orchestration with a strong automation mindset.

The role is remote with a Singapore base, requiring weekday daytime hours and on-call rotation. Expect a base salary SGD 165,000–220,000 plus discretionary bonus and equity.