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# Data Center IT Engineer - Hosting

- **Company:** Hamilton Barnes
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- **Salary:** £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Linux, InfiniBand, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), AI Infrastructure, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), High Performance Computing
- **Published:** July 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gbdc21aec8f06ed602349238c13936b789/eaa

## About the Role

Skills/Must have

 * Experience within a data center, cloud, hosting, colocation, HPC or large scale infrastructure environment
 * Racking, stacking and cabling experience
 * Hands on experience with enterprise server hardware and storage systems
 * Good understanding of TCP/IP networking, switching and data center infrastructure
 * Experience supporting mission critical production environments
 * Experience working within operational support, infrastructure engineering or data center operations teams
 * Exposure to NVIDIA GPUs, InfiniBand, RoCEv2, AI infrastructure or HPC environments would be highly beneficial

## Description

They are seeking a Data Center IT Engineer to support the day-to-day operation of one of its flagship AI data centres in Newcastle. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the infrastructure powering large-scale AI training, inference, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads across thousands of NVIDIA GPUs within one of the UK's most advanced AI environments.
The role offers the opportunity to join a profitable and rapidly growing organisation that is expanding its AI infrastructure across international markets. Working alongside experienced engineers, the successful candidate will help operate critical infrastructure supporting next-generation AI applications while taking ownership of a highly advanced technical environment.
This is a unique opportunity to move beyond traditional enterprise IT and contribute to the infrastructure shaping the future of AI, apply today!
Responsibilities

 * Operate and maintain GPU servers, storage platforms and high performance compute infrastructure
 * Monitor the health, availability and performance of production environments
 * Troubleshoot Linux, hardware, networking and infrastructure related issues
 * Support incident response, root cause analysis and service restoration activities
 * Coordinate hardware replacements, maintenance windows and vendor activities
 * Support rack integrations, infrastructure upgrades and capacity expansion projects


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