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Role: Senior Network EngineerLocation: London Area - Onsite full timeIR35:TBC Length: 3 months initial
We seek a strong Infrastructure & Network Engineer to help design, maintain, and optimise the networking and computing infrastructure supporting our robotics development, testing, and production environments.
This role involves hands-on support for network configuration, local server environments, storage solutions, and on-premise GPU clusters, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Manage lab networks (routers, switches, VLANs, Wi-Fi) to ensure high-performance connectivity for robotic testing.
- Support teleoperation with low-latency, high-bandwidth links between operators and robots.
- Maintain local servers and NAS storage, ensuring uptime, backups, and secure access.
- Design and manage scalable, secure IT infrastructure (on-prem, hybrid, or cloud).
- Monitor and troubleshoot network performance (QoS, uptime, connectivity).
- Implement and enforce security best practices (access control, firewalls, VPNs).
- Maintain documentation of network setups, procedures, and hardware inventory.
Expertise:
- Strong networking experience: Wi-Fi, switching, routing, VLANs, VPNs, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, iptables.
- Skilled in managing NAS systems and storage for robotics/AI workloads.
- Proficient with Linux server administration and hardware configurations.
- Familiar with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) and automation tools.
- Solid grasp of IT security for mixed on-prem/cloud environments.
- Comfortable with hardware setup, cabling, and diagnosing physical network issues.
- Experience supporting real-time or high-availability networked systems.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with GPU servers, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of hybrid infrastructure (on-prem + cloud like AWS/GCP).
- Familiarity with teleoperation, game streaming, or low-latency systems.
- Infrastructure monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Netdata, etc.
- Basic scripting (Python, Bash) for automation and tooling.
- Strong communicator with solid documentation skills.
