Engineering Lab Infrastructure Lead

You will lead the Engineering Lab Support function, ensuring labs, infrastructure and services remain reliable, scalable and effective for engineers developing next-generation technologies. You will work directly with engineering teams, supporting lab environments, managing infrastructure, automating workflows and solving complex technical problems. You will manage Linux-based servers and engineering environments, support hardware bring-up, validation and testing, and maintain network, storage and compute infrastructure. You will design and improve operational processes, tooling and automation, manage infrastructure through configuration management and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, and develop knowledge bases, documentation and operational standards. As the function grows, you will recruit, mentor and lead a small team of Lab Infrastructure Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of Engineering Lab infrastructure and support services
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex infrastructure and lab issues
• Manage Linux-based servers and engineering environments
• Support hardware bring-up, validation and testing activities
• Design and improve operational processes, tooling and automation
• Maintain and improve network, storage and compute infrastructure within engineering labs
• Manage infrastructure through configuration management and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• Build strong relationships with engineering teams and understand their evolving requirements
• Develop knowledge bases, documentation and operational standards
• Recruit, mentor and lead a small team of Lab Infrastructure Engineers as the function grows

Requirements

• Strong Linux systems administration experience across Debian and/or Red Hat environments
• Experience supporting engineering, research, laboratory, HPC or data-centre environments
• Solid networking knowledge including routing, VLANs, VPNs and troubleshooting complex connectivity issues
• Experience managing physical infrastructure including servers, rack-mounted equipment, BMCs, firmware and out-of-band management
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet or similar
• Familiarity with authentication and access-management systems such as LDAP, RADIUS or Active Directory integrations
• Strong troubleshooting skills with a structured and methodical approach to problem solving
• Excellent communication skills and a customer-focused mindset
• Container technologies such as Docker, containerd or Kubernetes
• Monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, OpenTelemetry or similar
• Python scripting and automation
• CI/CD tooling including GitLab or GitHub Actions
• Experience supporting hardware development, silicon validation, embedded systems or electronics laboratories
• Performance analysis and troubleshooting across compute, storage and network infrastructure
• Web infrastructure technologies including NGINX, HAProxy or load balancing platforms