Platform Engineer - AI Infrastructure

On-site in the UK·Full-time·Added 2 days ago (last checked 2 Nov)

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Hamilton Barnes

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Our summary

Salary: Up to £130,000 a year
About £6,720 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, the UK
Contract: Full-time

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

Significant experience implementing and operating enterprise observability or monitoring platforms at scale
The Grafana ecosystem (Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alloy), Kubernetes-native design, Linux systems administration and cloud-native infrastructure
A deep understanding of metrics, logs, traces and OpenTelemetry; Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps (ideally Ansible); object storage and distributed data platforms; automation in Python and/or Go; and strong architecture, deployment design and operational documentation skills
The ability to set standards and bring application and operations teams with you, ownership in an autonomous start-up setting, and clear written communication

Nice to have

Experience monitoring GPU, HPC, high-speed networking (InfiniBand) or HPE hardware estates
Multi-tenant platform experience and distributed tracing adoption
Integration with ITSM tooling such as ServiceNow
Grafana Enterprise experience
Security, compliance and operational governance exposure

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

15% Bonus
4% rising to 7% Pension
Up To £130,000

The role

Join a UK developer and operator of resilient, lower-carbon AI infrastructure dedicated to driving digital transformation by converting legacy brownfield sites into state-of-the-art data centers. Powered by renewable energy, the organization creates ultra-fast compute capacity that supports community regeneration while providing high-performance infrastructure to healthcare, research, finance, enterprise, and public-sector clients.

The company is currently on the lookout for an Observability Engineer to join its team. The successful candidate will take greenfield ownership of designing, building, and running the enterprise observability platform across compute, GPU, storage, and networking layers. Core duties include defining telemetry and monitoring standards, implementing alerting and dashboarding using Grafana and OpenTelemetry within Kubernetes environments, and establishing data retention and governance frameworks to support mission-critical operations.

What you'll do

Design and implement highly available observability services across multiple co-location and production sites, including multi-tenant controls and tenant isolation
Define platform standards for telemetry collection, labelling, metadata enrichment, retention and data governance
Deploy and manage Grafana Alloy collectors across Kubernetes clusters, Linux hosts, network infrastructure, storage platforms and hardware management systems
Integrate telemetry from Kubernetes, GPU infrastructure, HPE hardware, storage, network devices and cloud-native services using OpenTelemetry standards
Build alerting frameworks (recording rules, AlertManager), operational dashboards, and SLIs, SLOs and KPIs, integrated with ITSM and incident-management platforms
Automate platform delivery with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps (dashboards, alerts, tenant onboarding, telemetry config), and design and validate DR, resilience and failover for the observability services themselves