EU remote
Infrastructure/Systems Engineer
About this role
Infrastructure Engineer – Platform Company Orcrist is building a next generation data intelligence platform using cutting-edge technologies. 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.
Our Platform team owns the infrastructure that powers every deployment, from the metal up. Role You'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. We 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.
What you'll do Design, 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). Build 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.