Senior Cloud Platform Engineer for AI Infrastructure

Graphcore; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Annual leave

Private medical insurance

Dental plan

Pension (matched up to 5%)

Life assurance

Income protection

Parental leave

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Graphcore in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Cloud Platform Team to develop and operate cloud services across private and public environments. You will deploy services on our AI system fleet, implement IaC, and help optimize performance, networking and storage.

You will work with Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development to deliver scalable AI compute solutions, using Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern observability tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.
• Experience 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, 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.

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

ArgoCD

Linux scripting

Linux system administration

Git / Version control

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Agile / Scrum

Python

Communication

Independent worker

OpenStack knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

Packer

GitLab

GitHub

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Job description

Graphcore in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Cloud Platform Team to develop and operate cloud services across private and public environments. You will deploy services on our AI system fleet, implement IaC, and help optimize performance, networking and storage.

You will work with Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development to deliver scalable AI compute solutions, using Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern observability tools.