Senior Platform Network Engineer

Flox

  • London
  • £55,000-65,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 6 days ago
🚀 The MissionAt FLOX, we believe smarter farms lead to thriving chickens and healthier lives. Our mission is simple: healthier chickens benefit everyone. That’s why we built FLOX360, a system that uses Computer Vision, smart sensors, and real-time insights to transform poultry farming. By helping farmers improve welfare and efficiency, FLOX360 creates a win-win for birds, farmers, the environment, and people everywhere. Today, we’re watching 60 million chickens a year.We believe we are setting the standard for animal welfare and smart farming - and we’re just getting started.🏠 The PeopleWe’re a diverse team of engineers and entrepreneurs, representing over 13 nationalities and all walks of life - even a few vegetarians! We are brought together by a shared passion for meaningful impact. Our culture is grounded in values we live every day:🧙🏽 Empathetic Artisan - We approach our work with care, artistry, and genuine empathy for each other and our users. We lead with positivity and passion.💪🏼 Tenacious Innovator - Innovation drives us. We trust ourselves, keep learning, and uncover bold solutions that redefine what’s possible in poultry farming.🧤 Hand in Glove - One mission, one team. We grow together with patience, trust, and transparency, amplifying each other’s strengths to revolutionise farming.🏗️ Worth Building - Worth celebrating. We dedicate ourselves to work that matters, taking pride in creating disruptive solutions our users can’t live without.This is an exciting moment of growth for FLOX - and we’re looking for ambitious, humble, and purpose-driven people to join us in building a future of smarter farms, thriving chickens, and healthier lives.🎒 The roleWe are currently seeking a Senior Platform Network Engineer to work directly under our Engineering Manager in our office in London.We’re a growing start-up with plenty of room for progression and making the role your own. Occasionally, and in line with your strengths and interests, you may be asked to work outside your job description.Network Infrastructure:
  • Own the entire networking stack: edge hardware, VPN configurations, cloud networking, on-premises and edge deployments, while ensuring comprehensive security for FLOX, its customers and stakeholders
  • Lead network hardware specification, qualification, configuration and deployment across diverse agricultural environments
  • Operate monitoring systems to ensure network uptime and performance, responding to issues through established incident management processes
  • Conduct remote and on-farm network debugging and issue resolution, collaborating on root cause analysis and implementing systematic improvements
  • Develop comprehensive scalability plans for our global network of systems and devices, aligned with ambitious international growth objectives
  • Leverage AI-driven network optimisation and automation to ensure operations scale efficiently with expansion plans
  • Configure and maintain load balancers, network switches, routers, and wireless infrastructure for farm deployments
Platform Engineering:
  • Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions for automated network and platform deployments
  • Define and maintain scalable data pipelines to process multimodal inputs including video, sensor data and structured metadata from network edge devices
  • Build internal tools, diagnostics and platform APIs that empower product delivery teams to operate reliably and self-serve common workflows
  • Develop automated systems to detect network and platform anomalies, including connectivity issues and ingestion breakdowns, with escalation workflows
  • Work cross-functionally with Computer Vision, DevOps and Product colleagues to align platform capabilities with product goals and ensure reliable integration points
  • Optimise platform architecture for high availability and fault tolerance through resilient patterns and failover mechanisms that complement network redundancy
  • Lead the development of infrastructure for deploying and monitoring edge applications and services across the distributed network
  • Collaborate with tech leads on incident response, architectural reviews and decision-making to drive continuous improvements in platform reliability
📚 Tech StackHardware
  • Cisco, MikroTik, Netgear, Ubiquiti (or equivalent)
  • PoE systems and fibre: PoE+/PoE++, extenders, CAT5/5e/6 cabling, single/multi-mode fibre
  • IoT gateways and messaging: BLE gateways, MQTT
Networking:
  • firewalls, VPNs, NAT gateways, zero-trust and ACLs, Keycloak and NGINX reverse proxy
  • TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLAN, STP, LACP
DevOps / MLOps / Software Development
  • Python and FastAPI
  • Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
  • Docker; Kubernetes networking and service mesh; RKE2
  • RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, MPEG-DASH
  • Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Thanos; ELK; Jaeger; custom exporters
  • Jenkins, GitLab, Sonatype Nexus, Terraform, Ansible, Argo CD
  • AWS (primary), with GCP/Azure exposure
  • DVC, MLFlow, Airflow, Dagster, CVAT, Weights & Biases; data lakes/warehouse
🤝🏽 We would love to meet you if you have all or some of these requirements:
  • 5+ years in platform, infrastructure or ML Ops roles - ideally within data-heavy AI/ML product environments
  • 3+ years hands-on networking experience
  • Proficiency in edge computing constraints (latency, connectivity, bandwidth) and how to design for them.
  • Proficiency designing and deploying secure, performant and scalable on-prem and on-edge networks
  • Remote and in person network fault finding and resolution
  • A proven track record in designing and scaling edge-to-cloud ingestion pipelines for multimodal data (video, sensor, metadata).
  • A strong software engineering and systems design mindset - particularly around reliability, failure handling and performance optimisation.
  • Hands-on experience deploying ML models in production, including monitoring, feedback loops and rollback strategies.
  • Proficiency with DevOps best practices and Infrastructure as Code, in close collaboration with platform or infra engineers.
  • A systems thinker with a deep focus on product reliability, as well as a collaborative team player able to take ownership across the platform stack.
  • Prior experience in a start-up or scale-up environment is essential.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication skills - comfortable working across technical and operational teams.
  • Able to travel to our E8 London HQ approximately twice per week.
  • [Desirable] Experience with video ingestion, sensor integration or anomaly detection.
👐🏼 What we can offer you:
  • Up to £65k p.a. depending on experience and location
  • Hybrid working, in the office twice a week with flexibility
  • Inclusive and relaxed company culture: we welcome everyone, we encourage you to be yourself and dress as you like
  • Lunch and snacks provided
  • Exposure to state-of-the-art technologies
  • A talented and international work environment
  • Travel within the UK & potentially into the US and LATAM
  • A chance to work with well-respected experts, including AI and robotics
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from all individuals are encouraged regardless of age, socioeconomic background, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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