Platform Engineer (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

Were on the lookout for a skilled Platform Engineer with a sharp eye for infrastructure a problem-solving mindset and ideally a genuine interest in working with data at scale.

At Genomics England our platform powers the secure movement and analysis of multi-petabyte genomic and healthcare datasets. From high-throughput data pipelines to orchestration transfer and visualisation tooling the infrastructure youll help build directly supports teams tackling some of the most important challenges in genomic medicine.

This is very much a hands-on engineering role but the problems youll be solving are data-flavoured. Think performance tuning for data-heavy workflows scaling secure cloud-native environments improving observability across transfer pipelines and enabling product teams to run faster without worrying about whats underneath.

What youll be doing:

• Designing building and maintaining cloud and on-prem infrastructure with a focus on data-rich workloads
• Leading on CI/CD tooling and deployment automation for smoother safer releases
• Supporting and optimising tooling such as Tableau Prefect Semarchy Globus and Aspera
• Improving performance and reliability across our HPC clusters and storage-heavy infrastructure
• Building in observability - monitoring alerting logging - to stay ahead of issues
• Championing automation using Terraform Python Bash or similar
• Creating clean useful technical documentation and enabling wider team knowledge
• Driving best practice DevOps and platform thinking in a collaborative cross-functional setting

What youll bring:

• Solid AWS and Terraform (or equivalent IaC tooling) experience
• Strong scripting skills in Python Bash or similar
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitLab CI Jenkins etc
• Understanding of how to support large-scale data-intensive platforms
• A strong problem-solver whos comfortable working across the stack
• Good communication skills and a collaborative approach

Bonus if you have:

• Experience managing high-volume data pipelines
• Familiarity with secure data handling in regulated or research settings
• Exposure to data visualisation orchestration or MDM tooling
• Background in healthcare genomics or life sciences (not essential)

Qualifications :

Qualifications are not mandatory however AWS Terraform or Automation certifications are welcome and highly beneficial

Additional Information :

Salary from: 71500

Closing Date: Sunday 27th July at 23:00 (UK time)

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself but in order to support our people were continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• Generous Leave: 30 days holiday plus bank holidays additional leave for long service and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements flexible working enhanced maternity paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10% however you can contribute more if you wish) Life Assurance (3x salary) and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets support for training and certifications and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership a free Headspace account and access to an Employee Assistance Programme eye tests flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability ethnicity gender gender identity religion sexual orientation or social background. 

Genomics Englands policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people regardless of age disability gender identity or reassignment marital or civil partnership status being pregnant or recently becoming a parent race religion or beliefs sex or sexual orientation length of service whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination harassment victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary toour virtues undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity respect and integrity of all parties.  Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to however some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g. lab teams reception team. 

Our teams and squads have and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.