Senior Cloud Engineer (K8S)

Graphcore; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Annual leave policy

Private medical insurance

Dental plan

Pension (matched)

Life assurance and income protection

Parental leave policy

Employee assistance programme

Healthy snacks at Bristol office

Barista bar

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Cloud Platform Team to develop and deploy clouds and services across our fleet of high-performance AI systems. You will integrate with private/public clouds, ensure observability, and optimise performance for scalable AI workloads.

In this hands-on role, you’ll work with Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and a mix of on-premises and cloud environments. A solid Linux background and Agile experience are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.
• Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with a continuous delivery tool such as ArgoCD.
• Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor.
• Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.
• Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed).
• Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants).
• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation.
• Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar.
• A solid hands-on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualization, IO, systems), virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring.
• Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer).
• Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end-users of IT services.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate Kubernetes-managed end-user services on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services.
• Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds.
• Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems using Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure-as-code in internal and external datacentres.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux administration

Linux scripting

Git version control

CI/CD pipelines

Agile/SCRUM

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud fundamentals

Open source collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

Packer

GitLab/GitHub CI

OpenStack

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenSearch

SLURM

Job description

AboutGraphcore

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services on our fleet of cutting-edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions.

These include in-house AI systems alongside off-the-shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions. This is a hand-on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, high-performance networking and storage systems. You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services.

The Software Platform team atGraphcore

We build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds. Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre-release hardware and software, so it’s vital you are comfortable with unproven components.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop and operate Kubernetes-managed end-user services on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services.
• Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds.
• Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems using Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure-as-code in internal and external datacentres.

Skills and Experience(allrequired)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.
• Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with a continuous delivery tool such as ArgoCD.
• Solid softwareengineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technicaloutput as an individual contributor.
• Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities,risks, issues, impacts and constraints.
• Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed).
• Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants).
• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation.
• Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar.
• A solid hands-on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems), virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring.
• Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer).
• Goodcommunication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end-users of IT services.
• An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end-user availability.

Desirable but notrequired:

• Experience with Openstack cloud platform s.
• Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki.
• Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions.
• Programming experience with Python3 utilising classes and inheritance.

Benefits

• In addition to a competitive salary
• flexible working
• a generous annual leave policy
• private medical insurance and health cash plan
• a dental plan
• pension (matched up to 5%)
• life assurance and income protection
• We have a generous parental leave policy
• an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support)
• a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office
• our own barista bar!

We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone.

We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us.

We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Sponsorship

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.