Platform Engineer – London

Company: Genomics England
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Location: London
Job Description:

Salary: £68,500 – 80,000 per year

Requirements

  • Strong experience with AWS across compute, storage, networking and security
  • Solid Terraform experience for building and maintaining repeatable infrastructure
  • Strong scripting ability in Python, Bash or similar
  • Experience designing, implementing and supporting platform patterns & capabilities for consumption by stream/business‐aligned teams
  • Experience operating production grade platforms in complex distributed environments
  • Understanding of CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices such as GitLab CI or Jenkins
  • Comfortable working in data heavy, high throughput systems
  • Collaborative approach with confidence working across teams and influencing technical direction
  • Nice to have – Experience working in genomics, bioinformatics or healthcare data platforms
  • Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Nextflow, Seqera Platform, Seqera Wave or equivalents
  • Exposure to HPC environments or large scale scientific compute workloads
  • Understanding of regulated or security sensitive environments, particularly Software as a Medical Device
  • Experience working in a Platform Team as defined in Team Topologies
  • Experience contributing to platform modernisation or evolution programmes

Responsibilities

  • Designing, building and maintaining infrastructure across AWS and hybrid environments for use across bioinformatics pipelines and teams
  • Designing, building and maintaining platform capabilities that enable orchestration and execution of large-scale genomic pipelines
  • Working closely with bioinformatics engineering squads to support Nextflow native workflows and pipeline modernisation
  • Automating deployment, infrastructure provisioning and operational processes using Terraform, Python, Bash and similar tools
  • Design, build and maintain new container management capabilities, with a goal of providing secure container builds on demand for Nextflow processes
  • Re‑imagining our CI/CD pipelines and tooling, providing them as‑a‑service to the bioinformatics teams that leverage the platform
  • Implementing monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities and patterns to improve observability across distributed bioinformatics workflows
  • Configure and manage HPC compute environments, both AWS and on‑prem, through tooling such as Seqera Platform
  • Troubleshooting platform and workflow issues across multiple layers, driving long term fixes
  • Supporting cost optimisation, performance tuning and capacity planning across AWS and on‐prem systems
  • Producing clear documentation and sharing knowledge across engineering teams
  • Helping embed DevOps ways of working across squads and enabling teams to operate with more independence

Technologies

  • AWS
  • Bash
  • CI/CD
  • DevOps
  • GitLab
  • Support
  • Jenkins
  • Python
  • Security
  • Terraform
  • Cloud
  • Fabric

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Posted: June 28th, 2026