Infrastructure Manager

About the role

ABOUT OLIX

AI is growing faster than any technology in history and the explosion in demand has created a massive infrastructure gap; we can no longer build chips or power stations fast enough to keep up. The industry is still leaning on a ten-year-old hardware blueprint that has reached its limit. A new paradigm that is faster and more efficient will be the biggest economic opportunity of the next century and create the most important company of the next decade. The OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) is the first accelerator architected specifically for decode. Rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect enables a step change in system level performance.

THE ROLE

We are looking for an Infrastructure Manager to lead and grow the team responsible for the internal platform our entire organization depends on. You will own the cloud and on-prem compute, storage, networking, and CI/CD systems that our hardware, software, photonics, and compiler engineers use to build, test, and collaborate daily. You will join as the team takes shape, with engineers already in place in London and hiring under way in Austin. This is a high-ownership role with the freedom to define our internal infrastructure strategy, standards, and roadmap. You will guide the team to transform slow, manual workflows into fast, reproducible, and genuinely secure systems, working closely with our IT & Security team, who own identity, devices, and corporate security. If you care equally about maximizing engineering velocity, establishing best-in-class security, and building a highly capable technical team, there is a massive amount of impactful work to dig into here.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Day to day, you will guide your team and manage the strategic execution of our internal engineering platform. This is a mix of strategic alignment, architectural guidance, and team enablement focused on:

- Team Leadership & Delivery: Lead, mentor, and grow the team across London and Austin, and direct it in building infrastructure-as-code, provisioning automation, CI/CD pipelines, network design, and observability systems across our AWS and on-prem environments.

- Isolation, Access & Cost: Give each engineering group (chip design and EDA, compiler and agentic workloads, simulation) an environment that is isolated, scales independently, and has clear cost attribution, with sensitive design data protected to the standard our foundry partners and export obligations require.

- Operational Support & Reliability: Ensure your team effectively supports and unblocks engineers on complex build, compute, or connectivity issues, with clear support routes and solid incident response for everything the team runs.

- Security Posture: Champion a secure-by-default mindset across infrastructure, building in least-privilege cloud IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, and audit logging. Work in partnership with IT & Security, who set company-wide policy and own identity, endpoints, and compliance.