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We're handling petabyte-scale data with sub-second queries. Our product is a Kubernetes-based platform delivered as B2B SaaS or as a self-hosted on-prem solution, including air-gapped deployments. We enable customers across defense, law enforcement, and enterprise to turn mission-critical data into actionable intelligence.\nRole\nYou'll own the layer everything else runs on: bare-metal servers, operating systems, data-center networking, and storage across on-prem and fully air-gapped sites - the physical and infrastructure foundation our platform and GPU fleets are built on. You design, build, and operate server fleets with a strong automation and DevOps mindset, then partner with our SRE, MLOps, and ML teams to ensure everything running above the metal - including GPU inference - performs reliably at scale. Some of this work is hands-on at customer sites, where you size, rack, and commission self-contained server environments with no internet uplink.\nWe weight depth in modern data-center infrastructure, networking, and automation more heavily than GPU-specific experience. A strong infrastructure and network engineer with a genuine automation mindset - even without prior GPU exposure - is a better fit for this role than a candidate with GPU expertise whose networking background is rooted in legacy, corporate-style L2 designs.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign, size, provision, and operate bare-metal server fleets across on-prem and air-gapped environments (firmware/BIOS/UEFI, BMC via Redfish/IPMI, OS, RAID, kernel and storage tuning) using zero-touch provisioning (PXE/iPXE, MAAS/Metal3/Tinkerbell/Ironic) and automation (Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent - the tooling matters less than the automation mindset).\nBuild and run modern data-center networking: L2/L3 design, IP Fabric, BGP and switching, and RDMA fabrics (RoCE/InfiniBand) sized to scale without ripping out the core.\nEngineer resilient, highly available storage (Ceph/Rook, NVMe) with capacity planning and encryption at rest.\nOperate confidently in air-gapped and on-prem environments: offline mirrors and registries, signed artifacts, firmware/driver lifecycle without internet access, and system hardening.\nSupport MLOps and inference-serving fundamentals - GPU model serving (Triton/KServe/vLLM), GPU scheduling and sharing, and throughput/latency optimization - in partnership with our SRE and ML teams.\nPlan and run on-site build-outs: rack integration, power budgets, thermal/cooling and UPS sizing, commissioning, capacity planning, runbooks, and operator handover, with SWaP awareness for field sites.\nAbout You\n5+ years in bare-metal, data-center, or systems infrastructure engineering, with hands-on ownership of physical and compute infrastructure at scale.\nStrong bare-metal Linux (Ubuntu, RKE2, Talos, or similar): provisioning, firmware/BMC management, PXE/iPXE, kernel and storage tuning, systemd, RAID.\nReal experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent), Git and CI/CD, and scripting in Python, Bash, or Go.\nSolid, current data-center networking fundamentals: L2/L3, IP Fabric, BGP, and switching - this is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. RDMA (RoCE/InfiniBand) experience is a strong plus.\nComfortable operating in air-gapped or on-prem environments and traveling to customer sites for builds and deployments.\nPractical hardware sizing literacy: power budgets, thermal/cooling, UPS sizing, and rack integration.\nDocumentation-focused, methodical, and calm during hardware incidents. Eligible to work in Germany.\nNice-to-haves\nGerman language (B1+); exposure to regulated or security-critical environments (e.g. BSI C5, ISO 27001, or defense-sector delivery) is a plus.\nNVIDIA GPU stack knowledge (drivers, CUDA, GPU Operator, MIG, DCGM) and cross-node GPU interconnect experience (NVLink, InfiniBand, NCCL).\nKubernetes bare-metal fundamentals - how cluster bring-up and GPU device plugins interact with the underlying hardware, not day-to-day cluster operation.\nInference optimization (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, quantization) and familiarity with switch NOS (SONiC/Cumulus).\nRelevant certifications (NVIDIA, Red Hat, CKA/CKS) or field/forward-deployed engineering experience.\nWhat we offer\nRemote-first, Germany-wide: Work from wherever you do your best work, with regular team gatherings in Berlin and other off-site locations.\nFlexibility by default: Flexible working hours help you make work fit your life.\nYour setup, your way: Get a personal home-office equipment budget to create a workspace that works for you.\n30 days of vacation: Take the time you need to recharge and come back with fresh energy.\nKeep growing: We invest in your personal and professional development.\nGet rewarded for impact: Performance bonuses are tied to agreed objectives and key results.\nA warm welcome: Every new team member gets a welcome goodie bag.\nGood people, good times: From summer and Christmas parties to regular team gatherings, we make time to celebrate together.\n A mission that matters: Work on challenges with tangible impact on public safety and national security.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5189,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"German","level":"Intermediate (B1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["C4ISR","Defense AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-06-17T11:51:47Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":27,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.747,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":121,"expected_fill_days":72,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/orcrist-technologies-gpu-infrastructure-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/orcrist-technologies-gpu-infrastructure-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T19:48:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3324,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":9334},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=9334"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Forcrist-technologies-gpu-infrastructure-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Forcrist-technologies-gpu-infrastructure-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Forcrist-technologies-gpu-infrastructure-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/orcrist-technologies-gpu-infrastructure-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Forcrist-technologies-gpu-infrastructure-engineer"}]}