Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

CreateFuture

Working at CreateFuture CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference  while always putting people first. We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years. Our UK Benefits  * 35 days leave (including bank holidays).  * Private medical insurance. * Enhanced parental and adoption leave.  * Financial coaching + 5% pension match. * 40 hours of paid learning and development.  View our full list of UK benefits.  CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row. Join us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today. A hands-on senior engineer embedded in the client's platform team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of their Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and DevOps, owning the day-to-day health of containerised workloads while driving improvements to delivery pipelines, GitOps practices, and managed service configuration. The right candidate is comfortable working autonomously in a mature, opinionated stack and can influence without authority across engineering teams. Key Responsibilities * Own the operational health and evolution of containerised workloads running on EKS, including Helm chart management and Kustomize-based environment configuration * Drive GitOps practices using Flux, maintaining, improving, and troubleshooting the reconciliation pipeline across environments * Manage and optimise core managed services: EKS, MSK, and RDS, including scaling, patching, cost governance, and incident response * Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency, modularity, and alignment with AWS best practices * Support and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including build, test, and deployment pipelines for containerised applications * Collaborate with development teams to support the hosting, debugging, and performance of Java/Kotlin and Python-based services * Identify and address platform-level technical debt, contributing to a roadmap of incremental improvements * Support on call for the EKS platform. Skills & Experience * Kubernetes at production scale, EKS preferred, with strong understanding of networking, RBAC, resource management, and cluster operations * GitOps tooling, Flux (essential), with solid working knowledge of Helm and Kustomize * AWS managed services, hands-on experience with EKS, MSK, and RDS in production environments * Terraform, authoring and maintaining modular infrastructure-as-code across multiple environments * GitHub Actions, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads * Application-layer awareness, ability to support and troubleshoot Java/Kotlin and/or Python services running in containers * Strong operational mindset, comfortable with on-call responsibilities, incident management, and root cause analysis WHAT WE’LL OFFER YOU: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look. OUR HIRING PROCESS We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process. It usually looks like this: * Call with our Talent Acquisition Team  * Role specific capability interview  Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens. INCLUSION AT CREATEFUTURE  We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work. If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help. We look forward to your application!

CreateFuture

Working at CreateFuture CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference  while always putting people first. We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years. Our UK Benefits  * 35 days leave (including bank holidays).  * Private medical insurance. * Enhanced parental and adoption leave.  * Financial coaching + 5% pension match. * 40 hours of paid learning and development.  View our full list of UK benefits.  CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row. Join us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today. A hands-on senior engineer embedded in the client's platform team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of their Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and DevOps, owning the day-to-day health of containerised workloads while driving improvements to delivery pipelines, GitOps practices, and managed service configuration. The right candidate is comfortable working autonomously in a mature, opinionated stack and can influence without authority across engineering teams. Key Responsibilities * Own the operational health and evolution of containerised workloads running on EKS, including Helm chart management and Kustomize-based environment configuration * Drive GitOps practices using Flux, maintaining, improving, and troubleshooting the reconciliation pipeline across environments * Manage and optimise core managed services: EKS, MSK, and RDS, including scaling, patching, cost governance, and incident response * Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency, modularity, and alignment with AWS best practices * Support and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including build, test, and deployment pipelines for containerised applications * Collaborate with development teams to support the hosting, debugging, and performance of Java/Kotlin and Python-based services * Identify and address platform-level technical debt, contributing to a roadmap of incremental improvements * Support on call for the EKS platform. Skills & Experience * Kubernetes at production scale, EKS preferred, with strong understanding of networking, RBAC, resource management, and cluster operations * GitOps tooling, Flux (essential), with solid working knowledge of Helm and Kustomize * AWS managed services, hands-on experience with EKS, MSK, and RDS in production environments * Terraform, authoring and maintaining modular infrastructure-as-code across multiple environments * GitHub Actions, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads * Application-layer awareness, ability to support and troubleshoot Java/Kotlin and/or Python services running in containers * Strong operational mindset, comfortable with on-call responsibilities, incident management, and root cause analysis WHAT WE’LL OFFER YOU: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look. OUR HIRING PROCESS We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process. It usually looks like this: * Call with our Talent Acquisition Team  * Role specific capability interview  Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens. INCLUSION AT CREATEFUTURE  We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work. If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help. We look forward to your application!

Graphcore

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 We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services on our fleet of cutting-edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions.  These include in-house AI systems alongside off-the-shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions.  This is a hand-on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, high-performance networking and storage systems.  You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services.      The Software Platform team at Graphcore  We build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds.  Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre-release hardware and software, so it’s vital you are comfortable with unproven components.    Responsibilities and Duties * Develop and operate end-user services on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services.  * Help to build automation to collect and analyse metrics and other data from the cloud services to support clear identification and reporting of any issues.  Work with users to provide information of any product-related issues to Engineering and QA departments.  * Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds.  * Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems using Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure-as-code in internal and external datacentres.  * Work with external vendors of off-the-shelf switches, servers and storage solutions to integrate 3rd party products into our Cloud Reference Design.    Skills and Experience (all required)  * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.  * Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor.  * Experience managing on-premises or private-cloud environments.   * Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.   * Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed).  * Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants).  * Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation.  * Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar.  * A solid hands-on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems), virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring.  * Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer).  * Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker).  * Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki.   * Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end-users of IT services.  * An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end-user availability.    Desirable but not required:  * Experience with Openstack cloud platforms.  * Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions.  * Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads.   * Programming experience with Python3 utilising classes and inheritance.  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.   Sponsorship 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.