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We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.\nWe thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.\nAbout The Role\nNscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.\nWe thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nPlatform Operations & Engineering\nBuild and improve shared cloud-native platform capabilities used by internal engineering teams to run AI applications and services.\nOwn significant parts of the platform area, including Kubernetes cluster operations, workload runtime configuration, deployment workflows, observability foundations, or environment automation.\nImprove the reliability, scalability, and supportability of platform services through practical engineering and operational enhancements.\nDevelop automation, tooling, and configuration that reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and make the platform easier to use and operate.\nApply software engineering where it creates leverage, including scripts, services, CI/CD automation, operational tooling, and platform integrations.\nReliability, Operability & Automation\nImprove incident prevention, detection, response, and recovery across the platform areas you support.\nBuild and refine observability for platform services, including metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, alerts, and other useful operational signals.\nStrengthen rollout safety, capacity awareness, failure handling, and recovery procedures for production environments.\nDebug and resolve complex issues spanning Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, workload runtime behaviour, and cloud or datacentre infrastructure dependencies.\nEnhance operational playbooks, runbooks, and engineering practices to reduce toil and increase service resilience.\nTeam Technical Contribution\nContribute to design discussions, code reviews, and operational standards within the platform engineering team.\nCollaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver platform capabilities that are practical, supportable, and aligned to operational needs.\nDefine sensible defaults, paved roads, and supportable patterns for service deployment and runtime operations.\nMentor less experienced engineers in platform engineering fundamentals, operational judgement, and good automation practices.\nKPIs\nPlatform reliability and service resilience\nReduction in manual operational toil\nIncident detection, response, and recovery effectiveness\nObservability and operational readiness of platform services\nAbout You\nStrong hands-on experience operating and improving Kubernetes-based platforms in production.\nSolid experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD, configuration management, or GitOps-style workflows.\nStrong understanding of reliability engineering principles, including observability, incident response, failure analysis, and operational readiness.\nExperience writing production-quality automation, tooling, or backend code in Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages.\nGood Linux fundamentals, including processes, filesystems, cgroups, service behaviour, and system debugging.\nGood networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, and container or overlay networking concepts.\nExperience debugging complex production issues across multiple system layers.\nAbility to work independently on substantial technical problems while collaborating effectively with adjacent teams.\nExperience mentoring or supporting less experienced engineers through practical technical guidance.\nWhat We Can Offer You\nYou’ll have the opportunity to help shape the operating standards behind a next-generation AI cloud platform, working on complex infrastructure challenges with real ownership and impact. This is a chance to play a meaningful role in scaling high-performance, sustainable data centre operations in a fast-moving environment.\nEqual Opportunities Statement\nWe strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.\nIf there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.\nThe responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.\nFor information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.\nNscale does not accept unsolicited candidate submissions from recruitment agencies.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6114,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Data Centers & Colocation","AI Compute & Inference"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-10T20:22:42Z"}],"liveness":{"score":83,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.829,"p_room":1,"age_days":23,"expected_fill_days":68,"reasons":["conf:7","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-senior-cloud-native-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-senior-cloud-native-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T00:13:00Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":219,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4781,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}