Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford

Senior Platform Engineer

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Oxford • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

  • **Day-to-day, you might:**
  • - Architect, build, and operate our cloud platform, moving infrastructure beyond the initial setup to deliver resilient compute, network, and storage, including full-sized GPU clusters
  • - Drive the implementation of highly structured, auditable delivery pipelines (CI/CD/GitOps) using to enforce automated, repeatable infrastructure changes
  • - Design and deploy automated governance and security controls using Policy-as-Code (specifically Kyverno and YAML) to ensure strong isolation, protect data, and meet internal audit standards
  • - Establish the foundational monitoring, alerting, and telemetry framework required for robust operations, defining clear SLOs, and setting the course for future SRE work
  • - Partner with Research and Data teams to build self-service capabilities that efficiently support diverse workloads, from Python notebooks to distributed clusters

Requirements

  • **What makes you a great fit:**
  • - Proven experience platform engineering, with a demonstrable track record of architecting and automating operational processes
  • - A highly proactive attitude and a passion for introducing and automating operational structure
  • - Expertise with at least one major cloud provider (OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • - Proficiency with Terraform for declarative, large-scale infrastructure provisioning
  • - Comfortable with operating and managing large-scale, resilient Kubernetes clusters
  • - Proficiency in at least one major language for system-level tools (e.g. Python, Go, or Java) with some scripting experience
  • **It would also be great if you had:**
  • - Familiarity with modern Policy-as-Code tooling
  • - A passion for introducing and automating operational rigour and structure
  • - Experience supporting ML and Data Engineering workloads
Benefits
  • **We offer the following salary and benefits:**
  • Enhanced holiday pay
  • Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Hospital Cash Plan
  • Therapy Services
  • Perk Box
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • **Why work for EIT:**
  • At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. We value emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, and encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
platform engineeringcloud architectureCI/CDGitOpsPolicy-as-CodeKyvernoYAMLTerraformKubernetesPython
Soft skills
proactive attitudepassion for automationoperational structure