Data Center IT Engineer - Hosting

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity? 

Join a fast-growing AI cloud provider developing innovative platforms powered by cutting-edge research to transform the future of digital commerce and automation. Trusted by organisations across international markets, the company combines advanced AI capabilities with a strong commitment to data protection, digital sovereignty, and scalable innovation.

They are seeking a Data Center IT Engineer to support the day-to-day operation of one of its flagship AI data centres in Newcastle. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the infrastructure powering large-scale AI training, inference, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads across thousands of NVIDIA GPUs within one of the UK's most advanced AI environments.

The role offers the opportunity to join a profitable and rapidly growing organisation that is expanding its AI infrastructure across international markets. Working alongside experienced engineers, the successful candidate will help operate critical infrastructure supporting next-generation AI applications while taking ownership of a highly advanced technical environment. 

This is a unique opportunity to move beyond traditional enterprise IT and contribute to the infrastructure shaping the future of AI, apply today!

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain GPU servers, storage platforms and high performance compute infrastructure
• Monitor the health, availability and performance of production environments
• Troubleshoot Linux, hardware, networking and infrastructure related issues
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and service restoration activities
• Coordinate hardware replacements, maintenance windows and vendor activities
• Support rack integrations, infrastructure upgrades and capacity expansion projects

Skills/Must have

• Experience within a data center, cloud, hosting, colocation, HPC or large scale infrastructure environment
• Racking, stacking and cabling experience
• Hands on experience with enterprise server hardware and storage systems
• Good understanding of TCP/IP networking, switching and data center infrastructure
• Experience supporting mission critical production environments
• Experience working within operational support, infrastructure engineering or data center operations teams
• Exposure to NVIDIA GPUs, InfiniBand, RoCEv2, AI infrastructure or HPC environments would be highly beneficial

Salary

• Up to £75,000 depending on experience