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Principal Infrastructure Engineer - Platform

UK💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect, design, and implement next-generation AI-native cloud platforms and virtualization solutions for HPC and AI/ML workloads.

Role type

Principal Infrastructure Engineer (Platform)

Builds

AI-native cloud platforms, virtualization solutions, and global infrastructure for HPC/AI workloads

Domain

AI Infrastructure / High-Performance Computing / Cloud-Native

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes architecture, virtualization and hypervisor tuning, bare-metal lifecycle management, high-performance networking (TCP/UDP/DNS/BGP/SDN), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Ansible), observability pipeline design, security hardening (RBAC/OPA/Gatekeeper/Vault), automation scripting (Go/Python)

Preferred skills

GPU-accelerated systems (MIG/NVIDIA GPU Operator), RDMA fabrics (InfiniBand/RoCEv2), high-throughput distributed storage (Ceph/parallel filesystem), hybrid cloud and edge computing principles

Technologies

Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Go, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Vault, OpenBao, cosign, sigstore, Kyverino, OPA/Gatekeeper, Ceph, InfiniBand, RoCEv2

Responsibilities

Architect virtualization solutions optimized for AI-native HPC environments; manage bare-metal hardware lifecycle and Unix/Linux configurations; design high-performance storage and networking solutions; deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across hybrid/multi-cloud environments; build observability pipelines and automation frameworks; lead security hardening and supply chain security initiatives; mentor team members on architectural principles.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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