Graphcore
AI
SeniorCloudPlatformEngineer
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“Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Graphcore. Skills: Cloud Platform, Network Engineering, AI Compute. Develop and operate high-performance ethernet infrastructure. Support internal users in their use”
What You'll Achieve.
Operate 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
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, Significant hands-on experience with 1 or more vendor’s high-end (100Gb/s+) ethernet switch solutions, Experience managing on-premises or private-cloud environments, Solid software engineering or IT experience, Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed), proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants), Experience with a version control system (preferably Git), 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), 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, experience dealing with end-users of IT services, An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, focus on end-user availability
Nice to Have
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
What You'll Do.
Develop and operate high-performance ethernet infrastructure
Support internal users in their use
Turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services
Build automation to collect and analyse metrics
Support clear identification and reporting of issues
Provide information of product-related issues to Engineering and QA
tune and operate AI systems
Integrate 3rd party products into Cloud Reference Design
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working closely with colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams; Work with users to provide information of any product-related issues to Engineering and QA departments; Work with Datacentre Operations Engineers; Work with external vendors
Communication Scope
Good communication and presentation skills; experience dealing with end-users of IT services
Full Job Description
About Graphcore How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity? Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business. Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group – bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world’s leading backers of innovative AI companies. Job Summary We are looking for a Senior Network 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 onour 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 networkingand 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 developing pre-release hardware and soft
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