Senior Platform Engineer
Key Skills for This Role
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What you’ll be doing
Be part of our growing technology team to help create the cloud platforms to support Our Future Health as we scale
Work with the engineering and operations teams to define platform requirements
Use an iterative approach to building the platform, starting simple and increasing complexity as we go
Support defining development processes as part of a new, growing team
Own solutions from conception to deployment and beyond, taking part in on-call rotas where necessary
Integrate and deploy third-party tools required by other teams
Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale and security and translate these ideas into designs and implementation
Implement best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and efficiency
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.
Strong 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 In addition, experience in a commercial regulated domain would be a bonus (could be clinical, wearables, consumer apps, genomics, pharma etc).
Benefits
- 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.
- Career Growth & Development – £500 per year to spend on Learnerbly, our learning platform, plus regular appraisals and development opportunities.
- 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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