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Senior Network Platform Engineer
£55,000 - 65,000
Flox
Cyntra Place, London
£55,000 - 65,000
Requirements
Must:
We would love to meet you if you have all or some of the following qualifications:
- Understanding of networking protocols: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLAN, STP, LACP
- Experience with switches/routers from Cisco, MikroTik, Netgear, Ubiquiti (or equivalent)
- Experience with wireless deployments (Wi-Fi 6/6E) and resilient WANs (Starlink, cellular backup)
- Experience with PoE systems and fibre: PoE+/PoE++, extenders, CAT5/5e/6 cabling, single/multi-mode fibre
- Experience with IoT gateways and messaging: BLE gateways, MQTT
- Understanding of storage/compute for edge AI: local storage for model training, ZFS, RAIDs, NFS
- Experience with security controls: firewalls, VPNs, NAT gateways; understanding of zero-trust and ACLs; experience with Keycloak and NGINX reverse proxy
- Experience with Python and FastAPI; understanding of data/messaging systems: Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
- Experience with containers and orchestration: Docker; Kubernetes networking and service mesh; RKE2
- Experience with streaming protocols: RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, MPEG-DASH
- Experience with monitoring/telemetry: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Thanos; ELK; Jaeger; custom exporters
- Experience with CI/CD and automation: Jenkins, GitLab, Sonatype Nexus, Terraform, Ansible, Argo CD
- Experience with cloud platforms: AWS (primary), with GCP/Azure exposure
- Experience with MLOps/data tooling: DVC, MLFlow, Airflow, Dagster, CVAT, Weights & Biases; data lakes/warehouses
Responsibilities
As a Senior Platform Network Engineer, you will:
- Own the entire networking stack: edge hardware, VPN configurations, cloud networking, on-premises and edge deployments, ensuring comprehensive security for us, our 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
- 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
Description
At 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 watch 60 million chickens a year. We are a diverse team of engineers and entrepreneurs, representing over 13 nationalities and all walks of life, united by our passion for meaningful impact. Our culture is founded on core values: Empathy, Innovation, Teamwork, and Pride in our Work. This is an exciting moment of growth for FLOX, and we’re looking for ambitious, humble, and purpose-driven individuals to join us in building a future of smarter farms, thriving chickens, and healthier lives. We offer up to £65,000 per annum depending on experience and location, flexible working options, an inclusive and relaxed company culture, exposure to state-of-the-art technologies, and the chance to work alongside well-respected experts, including those in AI and robotics. We are committed to equality and welcome applications from all individuals, 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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