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Senior Platform Engineer

Cellular Origins

Cambridge

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GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

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Job summary

A biotech automation company near Cambridge is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to automate infrastructure and build tasks. This role involves maintaining existing architecture, providing DevOps guidance, and fostering collaboration among teams. Ideal candidates have strong skills in infrastructure design, DevOps tools, and effective communication. Benefits include a profit-related bonus, generous holidays, and health insurance among others.

Benefits

Profit-related bonus
25 days holiday
10% employer pension contribution
Free lunch and refreshments
Private medical insurance
Family-friendly leave
Life insurance (6x salary)
Electric car leasing
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Community activities and clubs
Discounts for sports and entertainment

Qualifications

  • Strong background in designing and deploying infrastructure for software delivery.
  • Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD setup.
  • Proficiency in automation tools and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

  • Automate build tasks and infrastructure for software teams.
  • Maintain and extend existing platform architecture and services.
  • Provide guidance on architecture, design, and implementation.

Skills

Infrastructure design
DevOps implementation
Server setup
Cloud infrastructure
Automation tools
CI/CD workflows
Communication

Tools

Terraform
Ansible
Python
Bash
Jenkins
CircleCI

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Job Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Cellular Origins, you’ll work with our software engineering teams to automate build tasks and infrastructure, create self-service environments for engineers, and foster collaboration between development and operations teams.

Your responsibilities include maintaining and extending existing factory architecture and core services, such as on-prem hypervisors, IaaS/PaaS, and virtualized software containers. You will serve as a subject matter expert in platform infrastructure, providing guidance and technical input on architecture, design, implementation, and development support.

You will also provide design input and advice as DevOpsSec for software platforms deployed to cell-therapy automation factories, as well as internal infrastructure for development and continuous integration.

This role offers the chance to join a multidisciplinary team and expand your skills, working closely with electronics, robotics, and system engineering aspects of the system.

Qualifications
  • Strong background in designing and deploying infrastructure for rapid and robust software delivery in Cloud and in-house environments.
  • Experience with DevOps implementation (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.).
  • Experience setting up servers, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
  • Proficiency in automation tools and scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash).
  • Ability to build and manage CI/CD workflows.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with developers and stakeholders.
  • Experience designing infrastructure for software delivery in Cloud and on-prem environments.
Desirable Skills
  • Knowledge of on-prem hypervisors and virtualized containers (Proxmox/ESXi).
  • Interest or experience with robotics, electronics, and automation systems.
  • Understanding security in DevOps, especially for cell therapy manufacturing automation.
  • Ability to evaluate and integrate new technologies.
  • Strong skills in gathering and refining technical and business requirements.
Additional Information

Cellular Origins is part of TTP Group, an employee-owned business based near Cambridge. We focus on bioprocess automation with a culture that encourages entrepreneurship, collaboration, and innovation.

Our benefits include:

  • Profit-related bonus
  • 25 days holiday
  • 10% employer pension contribution
  • Free lunch and refreshments
  • Private medical insurance
  • Family-friendly leave
  • Life insurance (6x salary)
  • Electric car leasing
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Community activities and clubs
  • Discounts for sports and entertainment
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