Principal Research Infrastructure Engineer

About us

King's e-Research department supports cutting edge computational and data intensive research across all disciplines at the College. We provide high performance compute, private and public cloud infrastructure and trusted research environments as the core building blocks of modern, data driven research. Alongside these infrastructure services e-Research provides Research Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering and Data Governance expertise to individual research projects.

About the role

We are expanding our Principal Infrastructure Engineering team to support two exciting new projects (in addition to our existing services):

• Pharos AI, a £43m (£18.9m DSIT, £24m partners) grant to build an AI development platform to unlock the value of large multi-modal cancer datasets hosted in a pair of biobank secure data environments operated by Guy's and Thomas' and Bart's NHS Trusts. This includes extensive support from and collaboration with leading edge industry partners e.g. AI precision medicine and drug discovery.
• The King's AI+  strategic investment recruiting 20 AI focused fellows and adding £2m of next-generation GPU capacity to King's Computational Research Engineering and Technology Environment (CREATE).

Work for these projects will be shared across a team of four principal infrastructure engineers to deliver AI/ML ops infrastructure services, scale out compute to national AI supercomputers and public cloud providers, produce quality portable and open sourced infrastructure as code.

Our Principal Infrastructure Engineers work collaboratively with large amounts of technical freedom and decision making autonomy. We build almost exclusively with FOSS and wish to put more of our work back into the community over time. You can expect to work with the following technologies: Apache, Bacula, Ceph (CephFS, RADOSGW, RBD), Discourse, Flask, Git, GitLab, GLPI, Grafana, Laravel, Let's Encrypt, Linux (primarily Ubuntu), mkdocs, Nginx, OpenStack, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, OpenTofu, OpenOnDemand, OpenVPN, ProxMox, Python, Puppet, SLURM, Spack, Squid, Trivy, VSCode, Wireguard, ZFS.

To get a feel of our work to-date please take a look at our docs , GitHub and watch this presentation at CIUK 2023

This is a full-time (35 hours per week) position, offered on a fixed-term contract, currently funded until 31/5/2027, but it is planned to convert to permanent.

We also anticipate that a second, similar position will become available shortly, subject to funding approval. Candidates may be considered for this additional role if funding is confirmed.

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