Platform Engineer
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What you’ll be doing
Working across cross-functional teams launching new services and integrating complex systems with partners.
Working closely with product managers to shape solutions from idea to implementation.
Day to day support of feature development, tech debt removal, and platform improvements, all while supporting a culture of high standards through pairing, peer reviews, and coaching.
Contributing to architectural planning, retrospectives, and incident reviews, helping drive meaningful change. You’ll also take part in support rotations, including out-of-hours on-call, ensuring our systems stay reliable and responsive.
Being a part of wider engineering initiatives that shape how we work and grow as a community.
What you won’t be doing
Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions.
Working in a place where you can’t see the impact your expertise makes.
Experience
High proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering and large-scale live services. Azure, AWS or GCP.
Hands-on experience developing infrastructure-as-code with tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi following GitOps practices.
Excellent experience coding and automating tasks in a high-level language, preferably Python.
Hands-on experience working directly with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, excellent debugging, troubleshooting skills.
Experience in building/deploying tools related to data pipelines, ETL processes.
Confident with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker.
Experience deploying open-source technologies such as Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Postgres and related CI/CD pipelines.
Good understanding of cloud security best practices and security compliance.
Experience designing, supporting and troubleshooting production systems at scale.
Good understanding of technology stacks from networks up to applications.
Experience of working in an agile methodology; used to code reviews and pairing.
Benefits
- Salary from £58,000 per annum. We are interested in applications from people with a range of experience for this role.
- Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
- Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
- Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
- Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
- Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
- A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
- Join us - let’s prevent disease together.
- At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
- If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at [email protected]
About Our Future Health
UK charity running a health research programme that recruits adult volunteers to improve disease prevention, detection and treatment.
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