Senior Platform Network Engineer (London) | Flox

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Job Title:
Senior Platform Network Engineer (London) Employer:
Flox Location:
London, United Kingdom Salary: Employment Type:
Permanent Reference Number:
45f1c3a7d252 Job Details: The Mission 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’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 People We’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 role We are currently seeking a Senior Platform Network Engineer to work directly under our CTO in our office in London. This role sits in the Engineering Team, and you will report directly to the Senior Engineering Manager. 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. What you will be doing:
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 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 We would love to meet you if you have all or some of these requirements: 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 What we can offer you: Up to 65k p.a. depending on experience and location Flexible working Inclusive and relaxed company culture: we welcome everyone, we encourage you to be yourself and dress as you like Exposure to state-of-the-art technologies A young 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. NOTE TO JOB SEEKERS Apply for this Senior Platform Network Engineer (London) job vacancy via
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