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Cloud Platform Tech Lead

Danaher


Job Location:

Cambridge - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 August 2026 (3 days ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences diagnostics and biotechnology

At Abcam one of Danahers 15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.

Progress happens together

At Abcam we believe the scientific communitygoes further faster when we go there together. Thats why we work with life scientists to provide biological reagents and solutions that enable fasterbreakthroughs in critical areas like cancer neurological disorders infectious diseases and metabolic talented team of over1400 colleagues worldwide is our greatestasset. By applying our expertise and pushing boundaries together we strive to better serve our customers strengthen our impact across our industry and ultimately our positive impact onsociety.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Cloud Platform Lead is responsible for the engineering delivery automation and continual improvement of the enterprise cloud platform with AWS as the primary cloud provider and Azure supporting specific business and technology requirements.

Working closely with Enterprise Architecture Cyber Security Product Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) the Platform Technology Lead delivers cloud platform capabilities infrastructure automation self-service services and operational improvements that enable faster safer and more reliable technology delivery.

This position reports to the Global Reliability Manager and is part of the Digital Product Development located in Cambridge and will be a hybrid role to cover solution for Abcam Global Operations.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

  • Deliver enhancements across networking identity connectivity compute storage and container platforms. Implementing governance resilience recoverability and operational readiness requirements.
  • Lead Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and CloudFormation. Drive GitOps and automation-first practices while reducing manual processes.
  • Ensure infrastructure provisioning is automated repeatable version-controlled and secure.
  • Build and maintain reusable modules templates and deployment pipelines.
  • Establish engineering quality standards for infrastructure code.

The essential requirements of the job include

  • 5 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure or Platform Engineering.
  • 2 years experience leading engineering teams or providing technical leadership.
  • Strong experience designing building and operating AWS platforms in enterprise environments with strong understanding of cloud networking connectivity and identity management.
  • Experience supporting business-critical production platforms.
  • AWS and/or Kubernetes certifications.

Travel Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

  • Ability to travel list specifics 10% travel overnight within territory or locations
  • Must have a valid drivers license with an acceptable driving record

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

  • Microsoft Azure and Azure Landing Zones.
  • Platform Engineering and SRE operating models.
  • GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
  • Observability and monitoring platforms.

Abcam a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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