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HPC Network Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, deploy, and operate the network fabric for a multi-tenant AI cluster, covering high-performance compute/storage fabrics, tenant isolation, and office networks.

Role type

Senior HPC Network Engineer (AI Cluster)

Builds

Lossless RDMA fabrics (RoCEv2, InfiniBand), leaf-spine data center networks, and multi-tenant isolation for GPU workloads.

Domain

High-Performance Computing / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

RDMA fabric design (RoCEv2, InfiniBand), dynamic routing (BGP, EVPN/VXLAN), leaf-spine/Clos architecture, network automation (Python, Ansible), Linux networking stack, network telemetry/observability, corporate network management.

Preferred skills

GPU cluster networking (NVIDIA Spectrum-X, ConnectX/BlueField), container networking (CNI, BGP), collective-communication libraries, storage networking (NVMe-oF), optical layer knowledge (200/400/800G).

Technologies

RoCEv2, InfiniBand, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, Ansible, Python, NetBox, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Cisco Catalyst, Meraki, FortiGate, Palo Alto.

Responsibilities

Design and operate lossless RDMA-capable fabrics for GPU compute and storage; build and manage leaf-spine data centre fabrics with routed underlay and overlay; implement per-tenant network isolation; automate network provisioning and configuration; build telemetry and observability for the fabric; troubleshoot performance issues end to end; operate the out-of-band management network; support tenant onboarding; own and maintain the office network; upskill colleagues on networking.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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