Contribute to building a future-ready cloud platform through innovative AWS solutions, automation, and collaboration within a supportive DevOps culture.
Are you passionate about automation, AWS cloud technology, and solving complex engineering challenges?
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Genomics England, you’ll have the opportunity to design, build, and optimise innovative cloud infrastructure using AWS and the latest automation tools, you won’t just maintain systems - you’ll really innovate, collaborate, and drive meaningful change!
This role sits in our high-impact Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCOE) team within our Scalable Tech business service. We own and operate the AWS Organisation/Landing Zone at a high level and are responsible for designing and implementing and promote best practice approaches to our 100+ in house engineers.
Engineers in the CCOE are responsible for hands on technical end-to-end delivery of Platform Improvements/Initiatives. As a Senior Platform Engineer in the team, you will also be expected to contribute to the engineering chapter in regard to Enablement, Coaching, and Strategy working closely with Engineers Principals and Tech Leads across the business to help Genomics England build a future ready cloud platform that will stand the test of time.
In this role, you’ll work in a mission critical environment, ensuring our platforms are scalable, secure, and efficient. From fine-tuning CI/CD pipelines to proactively automating solutions, your knowledge and expertise will really shape the future of our technology; we believe strongly in empowering engineers, fostering an inclusive culture, and giving you the autonomy to make a real impact.
Everyday responsibilities include:
Skills and experience for success:
If you have demonstrable experience as a Senior Platform Engineer, and can drive AWS cloud automation, optimise infrastructure, and influence engineering decisions, join us at Genomics England to make a real impact on our technology and the future of genomic healthcare!
Qualifications are not mandatory; however, AWS, Terraform, or Automation certifications are welcome and highly beneficial.
Salary From: £76,500
Closing Date: Tuesday 10th March @ 23:00 (UK time)
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.
We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.
Culture
We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here Culture | Genomics England
Blended working model
Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team.
Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.
Onboarding background checks
As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.
Genomics England specializes in genomic medicine and research by analyzing sequenced genomes for the NHS, aiming to transform healthcare through personalized medicine. They operate the National Genomic Research Library and support the NHS's pioneering whole genome sequencing service, fostering collaboration between research and clinical care to drive immediate healthcare improvements and future advances.
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