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 & RoboticsThis 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.OrgYour Role:Join ourSciCompteam 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, andoperateour cloud platform, moving infrastructure beyond theinitialsetup 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 (specificallyKyvernoand YAML) to ensure strong isolation, protect data, and meet internal audit standardsEstablish the foundational monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworkrequiredfor 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 clustersEssential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:Proven experience platform engineering, with a demonstrabletrack recordof architecting and automating operational processesA highly proactive attitude and a passion for introducing and automating operational structureExpertisewith at least one major cloud provider (OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure)Proficiencywith Terraform for declarative, large-scale infrastructure provisioningComfortable with operating and managing large-scale, resilient Kubernetes clustersProficiencyin at least one major language for system-level tools (e.G. Python, Go, or Java) with some scripting experienceDesirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience:Familiarity with up-to-date Policy-as-Code toolingA passion for introducing and automating operational rigour and structureExperience supporting ML and Data Engineering workloadsWe 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 ProtectionPrivate Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash PlanEmployee discountsElectric car schemeNursery Salary Sacrifice schemeCycle to Work SchemeFamily PlanningNeurodiversity support including advise and assessmentsCoaching & Therapy servicesWorking together - what it involves:You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate) and can commit to being onsite at our Oxford office, a minimum of 3 days per working week.

📌 Senior Platform Engineer (Oxford)
🏢 Ellison Institute of Technology
📍 Oxford