Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Health Data Platform

Our Future Health UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Pension Scheme

30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Career Growth & Development

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings

£1,000 Employee Referral Bonus

Wellbeing Support

A Great Place to Work

Job summary

Our Future Health is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build scalable cloud platforms supporting critical health data workflows and TRE-ready environments in London. You will join a small but growing tech team, shaping the platform used for participant sites, data ingestion, and secure de-identification/sharing across trusted research environments.

You will drive infrastructure-as-code, collaborate across engineering, and implement cloud-native practices with a focus on security

Qualifications

• High proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering and large-scale live services across major clouds (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Hands-on experience developing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi following GitOps practices.
• Strong experience coding and automating tasks in Python.
• Experience applying software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Experience building/deploying data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Proficiency with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience deploying open-source technologies such as Python, Node.js, Ruby, PostgreSQL and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance; production systems at scale.
• Experience in agile methodologies; willingness to code-review and pair program; bonus for regulated-domain experience.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Cloud DevOps

Python programming

GitOps

Debugging

Code reviews

Troubleshooting

Data pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

OpenTofu

Terragrunt

Pulumi

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Our Future Health is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build scalable cloud platforms supporting critical health data workflows and TRE-ready environments in London. You will join a small but growing tech team, shaping the platform used for participant sites, data ingestion, and secure de-identification/sharing across trusted research environments.

You will drive infrastructure-as-code, collaborate across engineering, and implement cloud-native practices with a focus on security