Senior Engineer - Cloud Development
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Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.
- Solid infrastructure or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor.
- Experience specifying, scoping, estimating and detailing work plans in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.
- Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash and python required).
- 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.
- Hands-on experience deploying services into public or private clouds using Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC).
- A solid 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 (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer).
- Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker).
- Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. 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.
- An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure without oversight, and with a focus on end-user availability.
- Experience with OpenStack deployments or the technologies they rely on (e.g. Ceph, Open vSwitch, KVM, QEMU ).
- Strong skillset and experience in HPC networking and virtualised RDMA NICs.
- Strong skillset and experience in end-to-end deployment automation and CI of containerised services. Complete automation of pipelines for build, test, deploy, manage, alert, destroy, rebuild.
- Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
- Experience with workload queue management systems (SLURM, LSF, Kueue).
- Experience with managed switch configuration (e.g. EOS, SONiC, DNOS).
- Programming experience with Python3 utilising classes and inheritance.
- Programming experience with Go.
Responsibilities
- Develop and operate 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.
- Help to build automation to collect and analyse metrics and other observability data from the cloud services 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 and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds.
- Operate and extend existing OpenStack-based cloud services and contribute to the deployment and development of new ones.
- Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems using Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure-as-code in internal and external datacentres.
- Drive corrective actions for systems that are not operating correctly, working with DC operations and Graphcore Engineering as required.
- Work with external vendors of off-the-shelf switches, servers and storage solutions to specify, benchmark and integrate 3rd party products into our Cloud Reference Design.
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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