Graphcore
AI Compute
SeniorCloudEngineer(K8S)
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“Senior Cloud Engineer (K8S) at Graphcore. Skills: Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code, Linux. Develop and operate Kubernetes-managed end-user services. Support internal users in their use of services”
What You'll Achieve.
delivering key technology; make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence; deploy clouds and services; build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions; providing systems to internal users and customers; operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance
Industry & Context.
must hold the right to work in the UK, unable to provide visa sponsorship
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads, continuous delivery tool such as ArgoCD, Solid software engineering or IT experience, AGILE and SCRUM framework, Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed), Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants), version control system (preferably Git), Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar, technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems), virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring, IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer), work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight
Nice to Have
Openstack cloud platforms, solutions for monitoring and observability. e. g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki, High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions, Programming experience with Python3 utilising classes and inheritance
What You'll Do.
Develop and operate Kubernetes-managed end-user services
Support internal users in their use of services
Turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services
Maintain and operate AI systems at peak performance
Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems
Deploy services on AI systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working closely with colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams; Work with Datacentre Operations Engineers
Communication Scope
Good communication and presentation skills; dealing with end-users of IT services
Process & Methodology
AGILE, SCRUM framework, understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints
Full Job Description
About Graphcore At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence. Job Summary We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services on our fleet of cutting-edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions. These include in-house AI systems alongside off-the-shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions. This is a hand-on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, high-performance networking and storage systems. You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services. The Software Platform team at Graphcore We build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds. Often the internal systems will be using and developin
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