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Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description

Are you a proven and experienced Platform Engineer, confident across AWS and keen to build and evolve scalable, secure infrastructure that supports world-class genomic research.
At Genomics England, we’re pushing the boundaries of science and tech to transform patient outcomes - and our platform underpins all of it. 

You’ll design, build and optimise the core infrastructure that keeps our teams moving fast and reliably, from automating deployments to fine-tuning how we run high-throughput workloads at scale, all while championing DevOps ways of working!

We’re entering a key phase of growth, simplification and technical evolution, so it's a really great time to get involved here , shape things, and bring your ideas to the table.

What you'll be doing day-to-day:

Designing, building and maintaining infrastructure across AWS and on-prem environments
Leading on CI/CD tooling and release automation - keeping delivery smooth, safe and fast
Troubleshooting platform issues across the stack and driving long-term fixes
Implementing proactive monitoring, logging and alerting - focused on spotting issues early
Supporting high-throughput workloads, including HPC clusters and storage-heavy pipelines
Driving infrastructure growth planning and cost optimisation alongside performance tuning
Automating everything you reasonably can using Terraform, Python, Bash or similar
Creating clean, useful documentation and sharing knowledge across the wider team
Promoting DevOps culture across squads and enabling engineering teams to move independentlyWhat you’ll bring:

Deep hands-on experience with AWS services across compute, storage, networking and security
Strong Terraform skills (or similar IaC tooling) for repeatable, secure builds
Solid scripting capability - Python, Bash or similar
Proven experience running and scaling production-grade infrastructure
Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, Jenkins etc) and DevOps best practice
Familiarity with on-prem/hybrid systems, including HPC or data centre estates
A clear, collaborative approach and confidence influencing platform decisionsNice to haves:

Experience mentoring engineers or leading on cross-team initiatives
Exposure to lean experimentation, evaluating new tech or platform tooling
Understanding of genomics, data-heavy workloads or regulated environments (a bonus, not a must)

Qualifications

Qualifications are not mandatory, however AWS, Terraform, or Automation certifications are desired & beneficial

Additional Information

Salary from: £71,500

Closing Date: Sunday 27th July at 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: 

Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.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 is contrary to

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