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We're  looking for an Infrastructure Team Lead to take ownership of the systems that power our AI  research and  development ,  ranging from   bare metal  GPU  clusters through to the internal services our engineers rely on every day.   This is  a  broad role   with technical  depth  and people  leadership.  You will  set the  technical   direction   of the  Infrastructure   team , drive  reliability   and  continuous  improvements  across the stack   – from  physical layer through to the software layer.  Additionally ,   you  will be  investing in  your engineers  through  1 : 1s , coaching and  creating  career   development  opportunities .   We’re  a team that  gets things done  properly  and  multipl ies  the  impact of   others.   If that  sounds like  an  exciting  problem ,   we’d  love  to talk.   What  you'll  be doing   Leading, managing, and developing a team of Infrastructure Engineers, setting clear  objectives  and fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture We are heavy users of infrastructure as code and automation, so you will be hands-on with PXE booting, Ansible for configuration, Terraform for VMware deployments and Helm for Kubernetes deployments Conducting regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and development planning to build technical capability and support career progression Owning operational stability across our infrastructure, including hardware monitoring, troubleshooting  and disaster recovery testing Acting as the escalation point for technical and operational issues, leading major incident response and driving resolution Leading infrastructure  strategy, including capacity and  project planning Driving standardisation, automation  and optimisation  to reduce toil Leading vendor relationships with hardware vendors, managed service providers  and other external contacts   Who we are looking for   Proven experience in an Infrastructure Team Lead or Senior Engineer role, with strong people management and coaching skills Experience leading or mentoring engineers, including setting objectives  and supporting career development A desire to go deep into any subject and a genuine love of learning on the job Broad knowledge of the infrastructure supporting distributed systems — operating systems, observability tooling, networking, storage, containers  and container orchestration Comfortable troubleshooting Linux systems (we use Ubuntu) Solid experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling — we use Terraform and Ansible extensively Experience with bare metal provisioning   —  we use PXE booting to automate hardware OS installs Strong networking configuration and troubleshooting skills, including DNS/DHCP/IPAM Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels and report up and out   We encourage you to apply even if you do not feel you match all of the requirements exactly. The list of requirements is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for, but it is not exhaustive. If you are interested in the role, the team, and our mission, we would love to consider your application. We are always open to conversations and look forward to hearing from you. Who we are: Speechmatics is the leading expert in Speech Intelligence, and uses AI and Machine Learning to unlock business value in human speech