We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join the small team designing and building the platforms and systems to support a number of vital functions across Our Future Health.
These systems will include but not limited to the participant-facing websites, import and processing of high-volume health, NHS and genetic datasets to the de-identification/sharing of data into accredited Trusted Research Environments (TREs).
This is a greenfield project where we have a significant new partnership with Microsoft and are building our new infrastructure on Azure. If you have prior experience building a public cloud-based platform from the ground up, we’d be keen to see your application. We’re looking for candidates who are passionate who can recommend modern technologies and practices that have a track record of being used successfully in the platform we are looking to build.
At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We’re looking for people to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we’re keen to speak with you.
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
- Strong experience working in a Linux focused environment.
- 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
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota.
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
- Proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering and large-scale live services. Azure experience strongly preferred; experience with an additional cloud preferred (AWS or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Strong experience coding and automating tasks in a high-level language, preferably Python
- 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 working with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, excellent debugging, troubleshooting skills
- Experience implementing continuous integration/deployment tools and practices
- Experience of working in an agile methodology; used to code reviews and pairing
- Ability to adapt, change and grow quickly as we scale the organisation
- Excellent communicator in person, in writing, when presenting, when creating diagrams, specifications and documentation
In addition, experience in a health domain would be a bonus (could be clinical, wearables, consumer apps, genomics, pharma / life sciences, NHS, etc).
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.)
- Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities.
- A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London – we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
Join us - let’s prevent disease together.
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What We Do
Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases.
Our mission is to create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK. Each volunteer will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and provide a blood sample that can be linked to their health records. Taken together, the data will present health researchers with a powerful tool to identify new ways of tackling diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia.
It's an unprecedented challenge that involves answering questions that have never been asked before – ethical, practical, and technological. And by getting these answers right, we believe Our Future Health will allow future generations to live in good health for longer.
We are currently expanding our team and looking for specialists across various fields – people who are motivated by the opportunity of creating something new that will make a difference to society. Click on the Jobs tab above to start exploring our current opportunities.
Our Future Health is a registered charity in England, Wales and Scotland.
