AWS Platform Engineer - Scalable Cloud & CI/CD Automation

Genomics England; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days leave

Remote working abroad up to 30 days

Pension

Life Assurance

Learning budget

Professional subscription

Gym membership

Headspace access

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Genomics England is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build and optimise our AWS cloud platform with modern automation and IaC. You’ll join the Cloud Platform Team within the Scalable Tech service and help scale, secure, and improve our cloud capabilities across 100+ engineering teams.

You’ll contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud governance while mentoring peers and driving best practices in a mission-critical healthcare tech environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years' experience as a Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer or similar in a DevOps environment.
• At least 2 years' commercial experience with AWS; related certifications are advantageous.
• Minimum 2 years' experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Understanding of cloud governance, cost optimization, tagging, and security in multi-account AWS environments.
• Interest in mentoring application teams in cloud best practices and self-service models.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and DevOps best practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a DevOps team to drive automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Provide in-hours support to Platform Engineers with day-to-day codebase changes.
• Develop and maintain Engineering Golden Path templates and enablement across the organisation.
• Own and enhance cloud-based infrastructure on AWS for scalability, security, and reliability.
• Develop, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Terraform and Ansible.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code to automate deployments and reduce manual effort.
• Contribute to cloud governance, including security, cost management and compliance.
• Build reusable platform components, templates and standards to accelerate delivery.
• Monitor performance, identify issues, and introduce automation for resilience.

Job description

Genomics England is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build and optimise our AWS cloud platform with modern automation and IaC. You’ll join the Cloud Platform Team within the Scalable Tech service and help scale, secure, and improve our cloud capabilities across 100+ engineering teams.

You’ll contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud governance while mentoring peers and driving best practices in a mission-critical healthcare tech environment.