Job Description
Senior Linux Engineer | Linux, Kubernetes, GPUs, Bare-Metal Systems | Biotech Scaleup
Join a groundbreaking biotech scale-up working at the frontier of biological data mapping and commercialising protein systems discovered in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. Their technology has applications from cold-wash laundry pods to next-gen therapeutics, and they’re growing fast.
The tech team sits at the interface of biology and compute: they’ve got 45 people globally (30 in the UK in a cool office in Farringdon), with 18 in tech and a lean but powerful Platform Engineering function of 3. You’ll be stepping into a hands-on senior role to support, scale and maintain their Linux Server, and GPU-rich on-premise infrastructure. All orchestrated by Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible.
Essential experience:
1. Linux (Ubuntu) systems background
2. Strong Kubernetes experience, ideally at a CKA level understanding of clusters, nodes, and resources
3. Experience working with on-prem or hybrid infrastructure, and an understanding of GPU compute is very beneficial
4. Scripting in Python or Go,
5. Terraform or Ansible or other leading IaC experience
6. Comfortable with multiple cloud concepts but not reliant on cloud-native tooling (AWS/Azure only used for backup, redundancy and gl...