Senior Platform Engineer

Join is at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: Health, Medical Science & Generative BiologyFood Security & Sustainable AgricultureClimate Change & Managing CO₂Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas for lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org Your Role: Join our SciComp team to build the cloud and compute foundation that enables scientific breakthroughs. Deliver reliable, secure platforms and self-service guardrails that accelerate experimentation and turn ideas into results - faster, at scale, and with confidence. Your Responsibilities: Architect, build, and operate our cloud platform, moving infrastructure beyond the initial setup to deliver resilient compute, network, and storage, including full-sized GPU clustersDrive the implementation of highly structured, auditable delivery pipelines (CI/CD/GitOps) using to enforce automated, repeatable infrastructure changesDesign 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 standardsEstablish the foundational monitoring, alerting, and telemetry framework required for robust operations, defining clear SLOs, and setting the course for future SRE workPartner with Research and Data teams to build self-service capabilities that efficiently support diverse workloads, from Python notebooks to distributed clusters Requirements Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: 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 Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience: 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: Competitive salary (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonusEnhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July. Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5% Life Assurance. Income Protection Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan Employee discounts Electric car scheme Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme Cycle to Work Scheme Family Planning Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments Coaching & Therapy services 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. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact!