Senior Platform Engineer
Ellison Institute of Technology1 day ago
Oxford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and operate resilient cloud platforms covering compute, networking, storage, and GPU clusters.
- Implement structured and auditable CI/CD and GitOps delivery pipelines for automated infrastructure changes.
- Deploy governance and security controls using Policy-as-Code, Kyverno, and YAML.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and SLO frameworks to support robust operations and future SRE work.
- Build self-service platform capabilities for Research and Data teams, including Python notebooks and distributed clusters.
Requirements
- Demonstrated platform engineering experience architecting and automating operational processes.
- Expertise with at least one major cloud provider: OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency with Terraform for large-scale declarative infrastructure provisioning.
- Experience operating and managing large-scale, resilient Kubernetes clusters.
- Proficiency in a systems-level programming language such as Python, Go, or Java, plus scripting experience.
- Familiarity with modern Policy-as-Code tooling and experience supporting ML and Data Engineering workloads are desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid workplace in Oxford, United Kingdom.
- Competitive salary dependent on experience, travel allowance, and bonus.
- 25 days of annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year, with the option to purchase 5 additional days.
- Employer pension contribution of 7.5% with a minimum employee contribution of 5%.
- Life assurance, income protection, private medical insurance, and hospital cash plan.
- Employee discounts, electric car scheme, Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, and Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Family planning support, neurodiversity support, and coaching and therapy services.
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About Ellison Institute of Technology
Ellison Institute of Technology is a privately held research institute headquartered in Oxford, founded in 2023, focused on AI, robotics, health and generative biology, climate/CO2 management, and sustainable agriculture. It runs research programs and labs to translate discoveries into products and spinout companies, working across science, engineering, and policy. Its Oxford campus includes a 300,000 sq ft facility slated for 2027 and a planned 2 million sq ft expansion at The Oxford Science Park, designed by Foster + Partners.