Senior Platform Engineer

CamWebDir; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer pension 10%

Private medical insurance

Job summary

CamWebDir is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and deploy the infrastructure and services that power our factory software. You’ll oversee CI/CD pipelines, automation, and platform services across on‑prem and cloud environments, guiding architecture decisions for a robust delivery stack.

You will work hands‑on, diagnose pipeline issues, and collaborate with robotics, systems engineering and test teams to ensure secure, scalable operations in regulated factory settings.

Qualifications

• Degree or vocational qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or equivalent industry experience.
• 5 years’ experience in software, DevOps, platform or infrastructure roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deploy platform infrastructure for on‑prem and remote environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Guide technical decisions across the full technology stack and security practices.
• Collaborate with robotics, systems engineering and test teams across projects.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting: Python

Scripting: Bash

Communication

Collaboration

Regulated environments

Infrastructure design

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

Bitbucket/GitHub

Jenkins/CircleCI

AWS

Azure

Job description

As a Senior Platform Engineer working within our software engineering group, you’ll design the architecture needed for our test, build and deployment pipelines as well as the services that underpin our factory software. You will guide technical decisions covering our full technology stack including on-prem hardware, hypervisors, container orchestration, platform services, application software, robotics and cloud.

You’ll be a subject matter expert who is able to provide practical help and guidance to allow the whole team to make the most of our platform. This includes advising on regulatory and security best-practices for local continuous integration and remote factory production environments.

This is a hands‑on role. You’ll regularly diagnose issues with CI/CD pipelines, perform maintenance, deploy into new factory networks and review the contributions of others in the team.

This is an opportunity to join a truly multi-disciplinary team and broaden your skillset. As well as working within an established software group, you’ll regularly collaborate across robotics, systems engineering and test teams.

What you’ll bring

You’ll have a strong background in the design, implementation and deployment of platform infrastructure and services to enable rapid and robust delivery of software to both in‑house and remote environments. Your open and collaborative working style combined with a breadth of technical knowledge will allow you to work effectively with the whole team.

Essential

• Excellent understanding of automation tools and scripting for infrastructure and platform management (Terraform, Ansible, python, bash).
• Ability to design, implement and manage CI/CD pipelines backed by high quality technical documentation. Strong understanding of DevOps best practices (BitBucket/GitHub, Jenkins/CircleCI etc).
• Practical experience in some of the following: setting up servers, networking, storage, virtualization, containerization or cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
• Experience designing and deploying infrastructure for software delivery to on-prem and remote environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills when supporting developers and other stakeholders to make best use of our platform.
• Interest or previous experience working with robotic automation systems or in regulated environments.
• Understanding of security best-practices in DevOps.
• Demonstrated ability to gather and refine technical and business requirements.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate new technologies into an existing platform.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree or vocational qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or equivalent industry experience.
• 5 years’ experience in software, DevOps, platform or infrastructure roles.

Cellular Origins is based at Melbourn Science Park, just 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our newly renovated premises offer modern office, laboratory and engineering spaces, surrounded by green spaces. We foster an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture, where ideas are encouraged, innovation thrives, and everyone has the freedom to do their best work.

Our employee benefits include

• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants