Senior Platform Engineer

Description

The software engineering group is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to design the architecture behind the test, build and deployment pipelines and the services that support the factory software.

The company builds robotic automation systems that make large-scale production of cell therapies cheaper, less labour-intensive and less prone to human error.

You will work as the platform subject matter expert, helping the whole team get full value from the platform, including advice on regulatory and security practice for local CI and remote factory production.

The role spans robotics, systems engineering and test teams as well as the software group.

Responsibilities

• Design the architecture for test, build and deployment pipelines and for the services behind the factory software.
• Lead technical decisions across on-prem hardware, hypervisors, container orchestration, platform services, application software, robotics and cloud.
• Give practical guidance on regulatory and security best practice for local CI and remote factory production.
• Diagnose problems in CI/CD pipelines and carry out platform maintenance.
• Deploy infrastructure into new factory networks.
• Review code and configuration contributed by other team members.
• Work closely with robotics, systems engineering and test colleagues.

Requirements

• You have a solid background designing, building and deploying platform infrastructure and services that let software reach in-house and remote environments quickly and reliably.
• You work openly with others and have enough breadth of technical knowledge to work well with the whole team.
• Essential: You understand automation and scripting for infrastructure and platform management, using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python or bash.
• Essential: You can design, build and run CI/CD pipelines and write clear technical documentation for them. You know DevOps practice well, with tools such as BitBucket, GitHub, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Essential: You have hands-on experience with some of: server setup, networking, storage, virtualisation, containers or cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure.
• Essential: You have designed and deployed infrastructure for software delivery to on-prem and remote sites.
• Essential: You communicate well and help developers and other stakeholders make the most of the platform.
• Desirable: Experience with robotic automation systems or regulated environments.
• Desirable: Knowledge of security best practice in DevOps.
• Desirable: You can gather and refine technical and business requirements.
• Desirable: You can assess new technologies and fit them into an existing platform.
• Desirable: A degree or vocational qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Desirable: Five years in software, DevOps, platform or infrastructure roles.

Conditions

The site is Melbourn Science Park, about 10 miles south of Cambridge.

The premises were recently renovated and include office, laboratory and engineering space, set among green areas.

Benefits

• Annual bonus.
• 25 days of holiday.
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary.
• Private medical insurance covering you and your dependants.
• Subsidised lunches.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave.
• Life insurance at six times salary.
• Electric car leasing scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Season ticket loan.