Platform Engineer

Technical Futures Ltd
Luton, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 70K

Job location

Remote
Luton, United Kingdom

Tech stack

API
Systems Engineering
Cloud Computing
Software Quality
Linux
Python
OAuth
OpenID
Ansible
Software Engineering
Data Storage Technologies
Information Technology
Slurm
Machine Learning Operations
Docker

Job description

  • Join our dedicated team as a mid-level to senior Platform Engineer
  • Work collaboratively with engineers and scientists on the design of our platform layer
  • Help shape how our platform layer is designed and implemented
  • Build and support systems and APIs that coordinate work, manage state, and handle failure
  • Contribute to optimising complex engineering systems

Technologies:

  • Ansible
  • Cloud
  • Support
  • Linux
  • Podman
  • Python
  • Rust

Requirements

  • Strong academic background, ideally in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or Scientific Software
  • Strong software engineering skills in modern languages, ideally Python and Rust
  • Experience designing systems and APIs between them, including services that coordinate work, manage state, and handle failure
  • Focus on code quality
  • Knowledge of cloud computing or HPC job management, such as Slurm, is highly beneficial
  • Experience with identity and authorization flows such as OIDC/OAuth2 is highly beneficial
  • Experience deploying containerized services on Linux, such as Podman, is highly beneficial
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Ansible or OpenTofu, is highly beneficial
  • Experience with modern Python tooling and packaging is highly beneficial
  • Experience with data storage and pipelines, including large simulation results and model serving, is highly beneficial

Benefits & conditions

We are an exciting deeptech start-up focused on optimizing complex engineering systems. We offer a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home. Our compensation includes a very generous base salary commensurate with experience, plus shares, 30 days holiday, additional time off between Christmas and New Year, private healthcare, a pension plan, life assurance, and much more.

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