PhysicsX is a deep-tech company of scientists and engineers, developing machine learning applications to massively accelerate physics simulations and enable a new frontier of optimisation opportunities in design, engineering, and systems control. We help our customers fundamentally improve their concepts and designs, transform their engineering processes and drive operational product performance. We do this in some of the most advanced and important industries of our time – including Renewables & Sustainability, Space, Aerospace, Medical Devices, Additive Manufacturing and Energy. Our work creates positive impact for society, be it by improving the design of artificial hearts, reducing CO2 emissions from aircraft and road vehicles, or increasing the performance of wind turbines.  We are a rapidly growing company but prefer to fly under the radar to protect our customers’ confidentiality. We are about to take the next leap in building out our technology platform and product offering. In this context, we are looking for a capable and enthusiastic cloud engineer to join our team. If all of this sounds exciting to you, we would love to talk (even if you don't tick all the boxes).
The RoleWe're expanding our cloud engineering capabilities within PhysicsX, and you'll be joining as our second cloud engineer. Cloud engineering supports all areas of PhysicsX, with a main focus on building out and maintaining our cloud infrastructure for our product offering, alongside helping other parts of the company with cloud usage. As a key member of the team, you will be one of two go-to people for building, maintaining, and advising on our cloud strategy and cloud engineering practices to support the company.

What you will do

• Build, maintain, and scale a self-service production Kubernetes cluster to run machine learning workloads in the cloud
• Help develop and execute our cloud roadmap, in-line with industry best practices, with an emphasis on cloud agnosticism to support the deployment to private cloud and on-premise environments
• Work closely with our internal users and customers to understand the technical requirements for projects and products
• Continuously apply and improve our cloud engineering best practices and standards, and support colleagues in their adoption
• Implement and maintain modern observability tooling to support the debugging and improvement of workloads hosted in public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments

What the ideal candidate looks like

• Experience running a production Kubernetes cluster, preferably to support machine learning workloads
• Experience using Helm, Terraform, Ansible and Packer as versioned infrastructure-as-code tools
• Experience using public cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure and GCP, from strategic architectural thinking to hands-on implementation
• Experience architecting and building high-performance compute clusters in the cloud
• Experience with containerisation through Docker or Podman
• An understanding of cloud networking and identity and access management best practices
• An understanding of observability, including metrics, traces and logs, and the use of open-source tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, and OpenTelemetry to support observability
• An understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including secure-by-design cloud architectures, and secure multi-tenancy in the cloud
• Preferably, familiarity with hybrid software and hardware deployments between on-premise and cloud environments
• Preferably, familiarity with one or more programming or scripting languages, such as Golang, Python, Bash, etc.

What we offer

• Be part of something larger: Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company. Work on some of the most exciting and important topics there are. Do something you can be proud of
• Work with a fun group of colleagues that support you, challenge you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields and solve truly challenging problems in science and engineering. If you are similarly capable, caring and driven, you'll find yourself at home here
• Experience a truly flat hierarchy. Voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo
• Work sustainably, striking the right balance between work and personal life.
• Receive a competitive compensation and equity package, in addition to plenty of perks such as generous vacation and parental leave, complimentary office food, as well as fun outings and events 
• Work in a flexible setting, with your choice of either our lovely London Shoreditch or Bicester Heritage offices to collaborate in, and a good proportion from home if so desired. Get the opportunity to occasionally visit our customers' engineering sites and experience first-hand how our work is transforming their ways of working  
• Use first-class equipment for working in-office or remotely, including in-house HPC and GPU stack

We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply. To help make a change, we sponsor bright women from disadvantaged backgrounds through their university degrees in science and mathematics.