Software Infrastructure Kubernetes Engineer

Graphcore Early Careers; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Dental plan

Pension (matched up to 5%)

Life assurance

Income protection

Generous parental leave policy

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Graphcore is hiring for a Software Infrastructure Engineer to scale and manage our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our software teams, improving build, test, deployment, and productisation processes for ML software components.

Work with HPC AI platforms and gain experience in distributed systems. The role focuses on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD, with a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• Experience writing Go and building software tools.
• Familiarity with cloud services, preferably AWS.
• Proficient in Linux environments and CI/CD concepts.
• Strong Kubernetes development and deployment experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, own, and maintain tools and services for the software org.
• Deploy and maintain Kubernetes infra to build/test/scale Graphcore hardware and software.
• Manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform or similar IaC.

Skills

Go development

Cloud services (AWS)

Linux environments

CI/CD

Kubernetes development & deployment

Python/C++ knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Job description

About Graphcore

Graphcoreis one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.

It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.

As part of the SoftBank Group,Graphcoreis a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.

Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives.A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.

Summary

Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team. Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed system

The Team

The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering,componentintegration, and packaging and release systems. Weoperatein squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive toeliminatetoil wherever possible.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop, own, andmaintaintools and services to support the softwareorg

• Deploy andmaintainKubernetes infrastructure to develop, test, and scaleGraphcorehardware anditssoftware stack

• Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Practical experience developing inGo

• Familiarity with cloud services (AWSpreferred)

• Experience managing or developing in Linux environments

• Understanding of CI/CD principles

• Strong experience of Kubernetes (k8s) development and deployment

Desirable

• Experience developing Kubernetes Controllers

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)

• Experience with GitHub Actions

• Experience with distributed HPC systems

• Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g.Prometheus)

• Knowledge of Python/C++ (or similar language)

Benefits

• competitive salary
• flexible working
• generous annual leave policy
• private medical insurance and health cash plan
• a dental plan
• pension (matched up to 5%)
• life assurance
• income protection
• generous parental leave policy
• 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.

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