Azure Cloud Operations Specialist, Sanctuary AI
Human-like intelligence robotics
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Human-like intelligence robotics
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots at a time that is right to make it happen.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience in an Azure, cloud-first environment with direct infrastructure management exposure at scale
- Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- A demonstrated track record of technical excellence and successful projects under minimal supervision
- Proficient with foundational Azure compute, contain, and data capabilities and services including Azure App Service, Kubernetes services, Function App, Databases, and others
- Highly skilled with logging and analytics services and reporting
- Proficient with the foundational elements of Azure tenants including EntraID and Powershell
- Confident in using IaC approaches and tools, like Terraform, ARM, and or Bicep
- Confident and experienced with networking concepts (like subnets, VPNs, and so on) in general, and Azure virtual networks in particular - including Network Security Groups (NSG)
- Familiar with SSO, SAML, SCIM, and OAuth integrations into Azure, as well as be comfortable working in an ITIL-oriented workplace with multiple endpoints (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
- Advocate of personal responsibility and team accountability
- Effective communicator across technical and non-technical domains
- Proficient in analytical thinking, problem-solving, and meticulous troubleshooting
- Decisive and proactive with superior time-management skills
- Thrives in ambiguity, excels in complex problem-solving
- Strategic thinker adept at balancing short-term and long-term goals
- Demonstrates ownership and initiative in overcoming challenges
- Skilled in optimistic listening and conflict resolution
- Influential collaborator with demonstrated leadership abilities
- Enthusiastic about tackling new challenges with resilience and positivity
- Obsession with bringing human-like intelligence to machines
What the job involves
- Sanctuary, a world leader in building AI-based control systems for humanoid robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Azure Cloud Operations Specialist to join our Enterprise IT team
- Reporting to the Director of IT, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of our infrastructure and services and will support the ongoing maturation of the business
- You’ll be a valued contributor as you learn and adapt to new and challenging projects, troubleshoot and resolve issues, and own and optimize our cloud systems and services
- You will be a key participant in stewarding the tools that enable the company to deliver on its mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots
- Be a key participant in a cloud migration project - learn about our existing cloud infrastructure and how it connects to various systems (in-cloud and on-prem) and help see the project through to completion alongside existing project participants
- Be curious and understand our existing cloud ecosystem, and recommend best practices that enable manageability, scalability, and cost effective operations
- Design, build, and document cloud infrastructure and share your knowledge inside the IT team and with stakeholders across the business. Use modern, automated tools and techniques
- Work with our software and machine learning teams to ensure their needs and aspirations are well-understood, well-represented, and accounted for when building and operating cloud infrastructure
- Make technical recommendations on an ongoing basis to ensure our environments are optimized
- Make business recommendations around capacity, capabilities, security, and cost of our cloud ecosystems
- Grow your skills across the cloud ecosystem in all facets as you grow our cloud capabilities alongside the business
- Grow your mentorship capabilities by sharing your work and skills with teammates to help foster their professional growth and development
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Sanctuary has set itself the ambitious task of developing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, intending to complement the human labor market - and eventually helping humans settle in outer space. Its robots are modelled on the size and shape of humans, and their cognitive architecture is based on the subsystems of the human brain. The hope is that this puts the so-far elusive artificial general intelligence (AGI) in closer reach.
It’s a challenging mission, but the Sanctuary team have remarkable expertise and experience. Before Sanctuary, the founders launched deep tech robotics company Kindred with backing from the likes of Google and Bloomberg Beta. Whilst it was eventually bought out by Ocado, Sanctuary was designed to pick up where Kindred’s early research left off.
Some critics suggest that Sanctuary’s technology isn’t anything new - just yet. Nor has any company promising AGI (including Tesla) offered up material results. There’s also some question as to whether AGI, technologically glamorous though it may be, is better than highly specialised systems. If it can be done, however, there’s no doubt it’ll prove a remarkable deep-tech breakthrough.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2022
$30m
GRANT
Mar 2022
$58.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $88.5m
Company values
- We are Mission-Drive: With one objective: to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. Mission success is the only arrow on the compass that guides our work. To be first, we must act with unwavering urgency, in everything we do
- We Rise to the Challenge: What we are doing has never been done before. We embrace the magnitude of our mission and face it head-on, with tenacity, speed, and positive determination. We do whatever it takes to ensure we hit our milestones on the road to mission success
- We Row Together, We Win Together: No matter how great our facilities or capital, we will always maintain the humble mentality of a small, wooden rowboat. Our strength comes from forcefully rowing together towards the same common goal, with each one of us pulling their weight. We stay steady on the course as a team–impervious to distractions and relentless against waves–to reach our destination
- We Act Responsibly: In everything that we do, we take matters of safety, security, confidentiality, privacy, and trust very seriously
- We are a Sanctuary: For our employees and for the future. We are a group of technologically-aligned people, working together with high principles and utmost confidentiality within our Sanctuary. When we successfully achieve our mission, we will provide a Sanctuary for generations to come, with solutions to many of the greatest threats to our way of life
Company HQ
Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, BC
Articles
Founders
Geordie Rose
(CEO)A Doctor of Theoretical Physics, who subsequently founded and served as CTO of quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Systems, before moving on to co-found Kindred.ai.
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