Senior Platform Engineer, Our Future Health
Office located in Holborn, London
Health research programme
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Health research programme
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Holborn, London
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK.
Role
Who you are
- If you have prior experience building a public cloud-based platform from the ground up, we’d be keen to see your application
- We’re looking for candidates who are passionate who can recommend modern technologies and practices that have a track record of being used successfully in the platform we are looking to build
- Proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering and large-scale live services. Azure experience preferred; experience with an additional cloud preferred (AWS or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Strong experience coding and automating tasks in a high-level language, preferably Python
- Experience in building/deploying tools related to data pipelines, ETL processes
- Confident with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker
- Experience deploying open-source technologies such as Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Postgres and related CI/CD pipelines
- Good understanding of cloud security best practices and security compliance
- Experience designing, supporting and troubleshooting production systems at scale
- Good understanding of technology stacks from networks up to applications
- Experience working with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Comfortable working in Agile
- In addition, experience in a health domain would be a bonus (could be clinical, wearables, consumer apps, genomics, pharma/life sciences, NHS, etc)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join the small team designing and building the platforms and systems to support a number of vital functions across Our Future Health
- These systems will include but not limited to the participant-facing websites, import and processing of high-volume health, NHS and genetic datasets to the de-identification/sharing of data into accredited Trusted Research Environments (TREs)
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of people spend too much of their life with poor health, with medical professionals only able to treat diseases when symptoms start to present. But what if later-life diseases could be prevented earlier through a better understanding of public health? Our Future Health is a ground-breaking new study, aiming to collect a blood sample and a short questionnaire from 5 million members of the British public.
One of the two major strands of genomic study in the UK (the other is the Newborn Genomes Program which will be running in parallel), Our Future Health is set to become the largest health research program in the world. With funding from government and the private sector (with particular interest from pharmaceutical investors) it will cement Britain's reputation as a world leader in genomics, and is expected to lead to major advances in the fight against obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other causes of poor health.
Aside from looking for volunteers for the study, Our Future Health is also seeking engineering talent to help build the infrastructure that will gather, analyse and protect the research data. It will be exciting to see how this charity develops and what discoveries emerge from its data in the future.
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Insights
131% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- We have a lovely new office in Holborn, Central London and we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
- We offer all employees a life assurance policy.
- Training support to help you achieve your potential.
- All employees are covered by a group income protection scheme to support them in the event of long term sickness.
Company values
- We must always be honest and transparent in our intentions and with the people and partners who contribute to this programme.
- We can only achieve our goal by creating new partnerships and ways of working, bringing together people and organisations that can contribute and empowering, encouraging and supporting them to do so.
- We are ambitious and committed to reducing the impact of diseases for everyone.
- For everyone to be able to benefit from this research programme, it is critical that it represents all kinds of people.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Andrew Roddam
(CEO, not founder)Was VP Data Strategy and Global Head of Epidemiology for GSK. Before that was the International Head for Amgen's Centre for Observational Research.
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