Senior Cloud Engineer
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
About Graphcore
Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a British semiconductor company building Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for AI workloads. Founded in Bristol in 2016, it was acquired by SoftBank in 2024. It is a portfolio company of Molten Ventures.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will develop and operate private cloud services and turn product and user requirements into reliable deployed systems. You will use infrastructure as code observability and automation to deploy test and improve cloud infrastructure while supporting hardware software and data center environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject
- Solid software engineering or IT experience with proven individual contributor delivery
- Experience managing on-premises or private-cloud environments
- Strong Linux scripting and system administration skills
- Experience with Bash Python awk sed Ubuntu RHEL and related variants
- Experience with Git and CI pipelines
- Experience with Terraform OpenTofu Ansible or Packer
- Hands-on understanding of cloud services virtualisation networks storage monitoring and observability
- Legal right to work in the UK
- Visa sponsorship is unavailable
Responsibilities
- Develop and operate private cloud services
- Translate product and user requirements into deployed services
- Use infrastructure as code observability and automation to manage cloud infrastructure
- Deploy test and improve cloud services
- Manage on-premises and private-cloud environments
- Administer Linux systems and write scripts
- Work with cloud services virtualisation networks storage monitoring and observability
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Retirement planning support with up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity
- Free food
- On-site barista
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Dental cover
- Health cash plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Give as you earn