Staff Cloud Platform Engineer — AI Infra & OpenStack

Graphcore; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Annual leave policy

Private medical insurance

Dental plan

Pension (matched)

Life assurance

Job summary

Graphcore in Bristol is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to join the CloudPlatform Team. You will deploy services on our fleet of AI systems, extend OpenStack-based clouds, and work across Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development to deliver scalable cloud solutions.

You’ll use Infrastructure-as-Code, monitoring, and high-performance networking to optimize services. The role requires hands-on cloud deployment, automation and strong collaboration with teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid infrastructure or IT experience with a proven track record delivering technical output as an individual contributor.
• Experience managing or operating on-premises or private-cloud environments.
• Experience specifying, scoping, estimating and detailing work plans in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.
• Strong Linux scripting ability (bash and python).
• Strong Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants).
• Experience with a version control system (Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation.
• Experience with CI or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar.
• Hands-on experience deploying services into public or private clouds using Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC).
• Understanding of APIs, virtualization, virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring.
• Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer).
• Experience with container deployment and management tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Loki, Mimir, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Kafka).
• Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end-users of IT or cloud services.
• Ability to work independently on critical infrastructure without oversight.

Responsibilities

• Operate and extend existing OpenStack-based cloud services and contribute to deployment and development of new ones.
• Develop and operate end-user services on our clouds and support internal users in their use.
• Turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services.
• Build automation to collect and analyse metrics and observability data from cloud services.
• Work with Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain AI systems in private clouds.
• Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems using CI and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Drive corrective actions for systems not operating correctly with DC operations and Graphcore Engineering.
• Collaborate with external vendors to specify, benchmark and integrate 3rd party products into our Cloud Reference Design.

Skills

OpenStack expertise

Infrastructure as Code

Linux administration

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Cloud platforms

Automation scripting

Container orchestration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

Packer

GitLab/GitHub CI

OpenStack tooling

Job description

Graphcore in Bristol is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to join the CloudPlatform Team. You will deploy services on our fleet of AI systems, extend OpenStack-based clouds, and work across Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development to deliver scalable cloud solutions.

You’ll use Infrastructure-as-Code, monitoring, and high-performance networking to optimize services. The role requires hands-on cloud deployment, automation and strong collaboration with teams and vendors.