Infrastructure and MLOps Engineer

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  Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team. Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems The Team The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible.  Responsibilities and Duties  Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support AI research and engineering teams  Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker  Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform  Candidate Profile   Essential:  Knowledge of Python  Familiarity with cloud services (e.g. AWS)  Experience managing or developing in Linux environments  Understanding of CI/CD principles  Experience using Kubernetes (k8s)  Experience of one of the following: maintaining machine learning applications. deploying ML orchestration tools (e.g. NV Ray, KFP, SkyPilot). managing ML accelerator hardware (e.g. DCGM). Desirable  Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)  Experience with GitHub Actions  Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus)  Experience with Grafana  Knowledge of Go/Java/C++ (or similar language) Benefits In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications