Operations Engineering Manager (HPC/GPU)

Location: London, United Kingdom; flexible work from home

Company

hirify.global develops sustainable data-center infrastructure, cooling concepts, and software solutions for accelerated compute and HPC.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Operations Engineers, including goal setting, workload allocation, performance reviews, and development planning.
• Own the reliability, performance, and availability of GPU-accelerated HPC infrastructure.
• Oversee monitoring, incident trend analysis, root cause analysis, operational metrics, runbooks, and change management.
• Champion the scaled Agile Framework for Operations Engineering and coordinate planning, backlogs, ceremonies, and delivery flow.
• Drive automation, scripting, configuration management, observability, and maintenance of operational documentation.
• Represent Operations in cross-functional planning and act as an escalation point during major incidents and complex technical issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure or operations, including 2+ years managing a technical team.
• Advanced production Linux administration experience, ideally at scale.
• Experience with incident and problem management and external support teams.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible and monitoring or observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Experience with Agile ways of working and exposure to scaled Agile frameworks.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across Platform, Network, Infrastructure, and leadership teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with HPC or GPU-accelerated environments, including NVIDIA GPUs, InfiniBand/RDMA, or parallel file systems.
• Python or Bash scripting for automation and tooling.
• Experience with HPC/GPU performance tuning, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, on-call rotations, runbooks, or incident readiness.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work from home with an international and virtual team.
• Hardware support for HPC-focused work.
• Collaborative environment where ideas are valued over hierarchy.
• Opportunity to shape new departments, processes, and company culture.
• Focus on sustainability and carbon neutrality for data centers.
• Wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion initiatives.