Senior Cloud Native Platform Engineer (AI Cloud)

Location: UK

Company

Nscale provides high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure for AI start-ups and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Build and improve shared cloud-native platform capabilities for internal engineering teams running AI applications and services.
• Own platform areas including Kubernetes operations, workload runtime configuration, deployment workflows, observability, and environment automation.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, supportability, rollout safety, capacity awareness, and recovery procedures.
• Develop automation, tooling, CI/CD workflows, integrations, and operational configurations that reduce manual effort.
• Improve incident prevention, detection, response, recovery, runbooks, and operational practices.
• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, and SRE teams while contributing to design reviews, code reviews, standards, and mentoring.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience operating and improving Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD, configuration management, or GitOps workflows.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, observability, incident response, failure analysis, and operational readiness.
• Production-quality automation, tooling, or backend development experience with Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including processes, filesystems, cgroups, TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, and container networking.
• Experience debugging complex production issues across multiple system layers and mentoring less experienced engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to shape operating standards for a next-generation AI cloud platform.
• Work on complex infrastructure challenges with substantial ownership and impact.
• Contribute to scaling high-performance and sustainable data centre operations.
• Culture focused on innovation, ownership, accountability, openness, and transparency.
• Inclusive environment welcoming people from diverse backgrounds and offering reasonable accommodations.