Staff Cloud Engineer
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and deploy private and public cloud services for AI compute. You will operate OpenStack services, automate infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code, improve fleet observability, benchmark and optimise systems, maintain availability, and validate hardware, servers, switches, and storage for reliable cloud services.
Requirements
- Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience
- Ability to scope and deliver technical infrastructure work
- Experience operating on-premises or private-cloud environments
- Linux system administration
- Bash
- Python
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Ansible
- Packer
- Virtualisation
- Virtual networks
- Block storage
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Git
- CI
- Testing pipelines
- Container tools
- User support
Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy private and public cloud services
- Operate and extend OpenStack-based services
- Automate deployment with infrastructure-as-code
- Improve observability across the fleet
- Benchmark, validate, and optimise systems
- Maintain critical infrastructure availability
- Validate Graphcore hardware, servers, switches, and storage
- Improve reliability of cloud services
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Matched pension contributions up to 5%
- 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