Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – Health Data (Remote)

Our Future Health UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Pension Scheme

30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Career Growth & Development £500/year

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings

Employee Referral Bonus

Wellbeing Support

Great Place to Work – Central London

Job summary

Our Future Health UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build cloud platforms that support participant websites, data processing, and sharing into TREs. You will join a small team delivering scalable, secure, cloud-native infrastructure with IaC and modern tooling.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in cloud DevOps, Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt/Pulumi, Python automation, Kubernetes, and secure production systems. Flexible, hybrid work options offered in London.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud DevOps/platform engineering for large-scale services.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt/Pulumi and GitOps.
• Strong Python coding and automation skills; CI/CD pipelines knowledge.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and security best practices.
• Familiarity with data pipelines, ETL, and production system design.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a growing tech team to build cloud platforms for scale.
• Define platform requirements with engineering and operations.
• Iteratively build the platform, starting simple and expanding.
• Define development processes for a new, growing team.
• Own solutions from conception to deployment and on-call.
• Deploy third-party tools as needed by other teams.
• Ideate solutions for distributed systems, scale and security.
• Apply best practices for availability, scalability, efficiency.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Python

Agile methodology

Unit testing

Code reviews

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Terragrunt

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Docker

Postgres

Job description

Our Future Health UK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build cloud platforms that support participant websites, data processing, and sharing into TREs. You will join a small team delivering scalable, secure, cloud-native infrastructure with IaC and modern tooling.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in cloud DevOps, Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt/Pulumi, Python automation, Kubernetes, and secure production systems. Flexible, hybrid work options offered in London.