Platform Engineer
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Job Summary
At Insmed every moment and every patient counts and so does every person who joins in. As a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with serious and rare diseases youll be part of a community that prioritizes the human experience celebrates curiosity and values every persons contributions to meaningful progress. That commitment has earned us recognition as Science magazines No. 1 Top Employer for five consecutive years certification as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and a place on The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list in the UK.
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About the Role:
Here at Insmed Cambridge we are building a cutting edge wet-lab and computational platform to develop therapies for rare genetic diseases.We are looking for an exceptional Platform Engineer who combines strong full-stack software development skills with solid DevOps and cloud infrastructure capabilities. As part of the Informatics and Data Science team you will both build the bioinformatic web-ecosystem that empowers our scientists and help build automate and maintain the cloud infrastructure that our platform runs on.
You will work in close collaboration with platform developers DevOps bioinformaticians human geneticists machine learning / data science specialists wet lab scientists as well as our central cloud security and IT teams. We are looking for someone who can blend production grade architecture and development of scientific code with expertise in CI/CD platform scaling and cloud infrastructure deployment.
What Youll Do:
PlatformDevelopment
Be a key contributor in a dynamic multidisciplinary team to help shape the future of data exploration and interpretation atInsmed.
Contribute to the design and implementation of a flexible bioinformatic web-ecosystem empowering our wet-lab scientists and data scientists to get more out of their data.
Engineer optimise andvalidateinternal pipelines to be flexiblescalableand configurable whilemaintainingproduction-quality standards.
Promote data integrity and responsibility by employing best practices for data handling and storage enablingbroad-scale analyses.
Liaise with stakeholders and external collaborators.
DevOps& Infrastructure
Develop deploy andmaintainour cloud-based applications and services empowering our science teams.
Develop and deploy applications and data workflows on theorganisationscloud platform.
Build and deploycontainerisedworkloads onto theorganisationsmanaged Kubernetes platform.
Manage CI/CD pipelines builds and Docker images (GitHub GCP).
Script and automate common cloud and deployment tasks.
Support machine learning model deploymenttrainingand inference.
Who You Are:
A degree (or equivalent experience) in computer science engineering bioinformatics biology machine learningstatisticsor a related field.
Full-stack development experience with strong coding skills in Python.
Experience in life-sciencesapplicationsworkflowsand systems in the fields of drug development cheminformaticsorbioinformatics.
Strong JavaScript development skills preferably Svelte.
Experience designingmaintaining andinterfacing withSQL databases preferably PostgreSQL.
Experiencewithcloud environments(especiallyGCP).
Experience with Docker and container-based workflows.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHubActions).
Experience with version control using git with familiarity of different branching and merging strategies.
Experience coding within a team.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with ourcomputational IT and laboratory scienceteams.
Desirable but not essential:
Experience with Kubernetes cluster setupdeploymentand management.
Experience deploying machine learningmodels andoptimisingdeep-learning model training on GPUs.
Experience working withPydantic&SQLAlchemy.
UI/UX experience.
Experience withNextflowor otherbioinformaticsworkflowlanguages.
Experience withArgoCDand Argo Workflows.
Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
Familiarity with event queues.
Experience integrating external cloud servicessystemsand applications.
Experience developing tools for drug discovery.
Life at Insmed
Our research site in Cambridge UK is situated in brand new labs and offices at the Babraham Research Campusa leading hub for bioscience innovation and collaboration. Our team of biologists human geneticists bioinformaticians data scientists computational and synthetic chemists bring together a wide range of technologies and modalities to deliver powerful new ways of treating serious diseases.
At Insmed youll find a culture as human as our missionintentionally designed for the people behind it. You deserve a workplace that reflects the same care you bring to your work each day with support for how you work how you grow and how you show up for patients your team and yourself.
Our offerings include:
Flexible work schedules with purposeful in-person collaboration
Competitive retirement benefits global equity awards and participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Career development through the Insmed Learning Institute external programs LinkedIn Learning and role-specific training
AI-powered and on-demand learning tools including a digital assistant to help navigate internal resources
Hybrid-friendly technology and IT support for seamless teamwork across locations and time zones
Global recognition programs and Employee Resource Groups
Eligibility for specific programs may vary and is subject to the terms and conditions of each plan
Eligibility for specific programs may vary and is subject to the terms and conditions of each plan.
Current Insmed Employees: Please apply via the Jobs Hub in Workday.
Insmed Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability age or any other characteristic protected by law.
Unsolicited resumes from agencies should not be forwarded to Insmed. Insmed will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes through this source. Insmed will only pay a fee to agencies if a formal agreement between Insmed and the agency has been established. The Human Resources department is responsible for all recruitment activities; please contact us directly to be considered for a formal agreement.
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Applications are accepted for 5 calendar days from the date posted or until the position is filled.
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