Graphcore - Senior Cloud Network Engineer
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Requirements
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject. • Experience managing on-premises or private-cloud environments. • 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) and how they relate to high-performance networking. • Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible). • Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker). • Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki. • Good communication 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. • Experience with Openstack cloud platforms. • Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions. • Experience with hardware offloading on RDMA-capable NICs and how that integrates with virtual networking on Open V-switch, KVM/QEMU. • Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with an automation tool such as ArgoCD.
Responsibilities
• Develop and operate high-performance ethernet infrastructure on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services. • Help to build automation to collect and analyse metrics and other data from the network infrastructure to support clear identification and reporting of any issues. Work with users to provide information of any product-related issues to Engineering and QA departments. • Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain, tune and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds. • Work with external vendors of off-the-shelf switches, servers and storage solutions to integrate 3rd party products into our Cloud Reference Design, with a focus on network performance, automation and resilience.
Benefits
• In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers 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 and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have 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.
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