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aap3 Recruitment

Senior Network Engineer - HPC/ AI/ GPU

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

£ 100 /hour

Freelance

07-05-2025

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Job Specifications

Senior Network Engineer | HPC/ AI Infrastructure |

Outside IR35
6 month contract
Based London

Help build the ultra-fast network backbone behind next-generation AI.

As a Senior Network Engineer, you’ll architect, deploy, and operate the ultra-low-latency network fabric that powers our GPU clusters. You'll work closely with our Systems, DevOps, and AI Platform teams to design fault-tolerant, high-throughput networks tailored for cutting-edge machine learning workloads.

What you’ll do:
Design and scale leaf-spine fabrics with Mellanox + Cumulus
Deploy and manage Juniper PTX routers and SRX firewalls
Automate infrastructure with Ansible and Python
Monitor and tune networks for high-volume AI workloads
Own incident response and drive root-cause analysis

What you’ll bring:
3–5+ years in HPC "High performance computing" OR AI networking, supporting GPU clusters
Deep knowledge of BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, MPLS
Hands-on with Mellanox switches, Cumulus Linux, and Juniper
Strong Linux CLI and network automation skills (Ansible, Python)

Bonus if you have:
JNCIE/CCIE, hybrid cloud networking (AWS/Azure), and experience with network telemetry

If that sounds like you please connect.

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