# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Ellison Institute of Technology](null/companies/tYoBQmFCuLVKUygNZbHUKp.md)
**Location:** Oxford, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Department:** Central Business Operations & Other

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## Description

**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 Biology
-   Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
-   Climate Change & Managing CO₂
-   Artificial 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](https://www.eit.or)

**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 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

**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 + bonus
-   Enhanced 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!