Senior Infrastructure & Data Platform Engineer

Wereat an exciting stage in our growth as adigital HealthTech company with increasing traction across clinical trials and life sciences.

Over the past yearweveinvested significantly in ourapplication and dataand infrastructure to support a scalable reliable and secure platform for the next phase of lookingfor someoneto take ownership of that platformcontinuing toscale thecapabilities andoperational maturityin a health tech environment.

About the role

Werelooking for aSeniorInfrastructure and Data Platform Engineerto own and evolve thecore infrastructure & data platform and operational reliabilityof our health-tech product.

This is ahigh-ownership roleat the intersection ofcloud infrastructure data systems DevOps and operational the person responsible for making sure our platformsupports a greatDevXexperienceissecure observable recoverable and audit-readywithout slowing teams influenceoverhow the platform is designed andoperated.

Youllwork closely with backend engineers product squads and leadership to design systems that scale safely support regulated requirements and are resilient in real-world operation.

Our tech stack and toolinginclude:GCPVercel GitHubBugsnag Sanity CMS

You will report tothe VPEngineeringandwill bepart of our broader engineering team is a full-time role eitherhybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK. We cannot sponsor visas to work in the UK.

Whatyoulldo

Infrastructure & Cloud (GCP)

• Own andoperateourGCP environment(networking IAM compute storage managed services)

• Design andmaintaininfrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)

• Ensure environments are secure well-structured and cost-aware

• Act as a technical expert on cloud architecture decisions
  

Data & Platform

• Own and evolve thedata technology stack(data stores pipelines access patterns)

• Ensure data systems are reliable observable and fit for analytics and product use

• Define standards for data integrity retention access and backup
  

Reliability DevOps & Observability

• Own CI/CD pipelines and release safety practices

• Design andmaintainobservability(metrics logs tracing alerts)

• Coordinateincident response post-incident reviews and remediation

• Ensure teams can safely deploy andoperatewhat they build

Security Risk & Assurance

• Own infrastructure-levelsecurity posture(IAM secrets network controls)

• Coordinate and supportaudits penetration tests and risk reviews

• Design and runbackup and disaster recovery testing(regular proven recovery)

• Proactivelyidentifyrisks and lead mitigation planning
  

Ways of working

• Produce clear documentation for architecture runbooks and operational processes

• Partner with engineers to embed reliability and security into everyday delivery
• Act as an escalation point for complex operational and infrastructure issues
  

This role is suited to someonewhocan do the infrastructure technical work as well as manage theinfrastructureoperationally.

Required:

• Strong hands-on experience runningproduction infrastructure on GCP

• Experience designing and operatingdata platformsin production

• Deep understanding ofcloud security IAM and network controls

• Practical experience withincident response on-call and post-mortems

• Experience planning and executingbackup recovery and resilience testing

• Experiencecontributing toauditsmanagingpenetration testing

• Confidence writing andmaintaininginfrastructure as code

• Confidence in health-tech or regulated domains is aplus butnotrequiredif you bring strong fundamentals.

• Understand how to make a top-class developer experience that enables high velocity with control.

• Have worked in regulated environments

Behaviourswerelooking for:

• A strong senseofownership: youcare about developer experience reliability security whilstmaintaininga high delivery cadence; you care about responsible data handling.

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders.

• Datadrivenyouuse data and evidence to justify yourdecisions thinkingabout now and next.

• Pragmatism:you design guardrails not bureaucracy

• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• A mindset of continuous improvement and risk awareness

• Strong emphasis on clear documentation and runbooks

• Gross salary:75-82Kper year

• 28 days annual leave peryear(plus public holidays)

• 500 annual training budget

• 200 home working budget (one-off)

• Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice)

• EMI share options

• Flexible working with core hours

• Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies

About Little Journey

Little Journey was founded by Dr Chris Evans a paediatric anaesthetist and researcher whowitnessedfirst-hand the impact that procedural anxiety poor preparation and inconsistent communication can have on patient experience engagement and with Sophie Copley an expert in human-centred product designthehealthcareplatformwas developed anddemonstratedsignificant benefits in improving care efficiencycomplianceand patient rapidly adopted across the NHS supporting childrenundergoing surgery before being expanded to supporta widevarietyofcommonprocedures.

Building on thisinitialsuccess Little Journeyexpanded into clinical trials applying the same principles of personalised education emotional support and engagement to research settings. Our Life Science platform Trial Flowsupports trial participants and their families across therapeutic areas to alleviate the burdensthey face as they navigateparticipatingin a clinical platform is now a globalsolutionand we work with major pharmaceutical companies.

Little Journey isa Series A HealthTechstart-upand wearea highly collaborative mission-driven organisation with a team ofabout 30 (includingProduct&TechSales &MarketingOperations &Delivery). We aim to change the future of personalised paediatric care one empowered family at a time. We value honesty and integrity trust and accountability reflection and learning proactive thinking and a deep commitment to helping others.

Diversity & Inclusion

We encourage people from allwalks of lifeto apply and strive toeliminateunconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. If you need adjustments made to our application process to help accommodate any disabilities pleaselet us know on

Required Experience:

Senior IC