Platform Engineer

• We are looking for a Platform Engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software engineering. You’re someone who loves solving complex problems, writing clean code, and building scalable systems that make a real-world impact
• We’re looking for passionate technologists with a solid grounding in infrastructure and a strong bias toward software engineering best practices. If you’ve worked with containerisation (Kubernetes), cloud platforms (any flavour), and tools like Go, Ruby, Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt or Pulumi, we want to hear from you
• This isn’t just about building new things. You’ll be enhancing and maturing one of the largest health data platforms in the world, driving improvements, fixing bugs, and supporting a system that truly matters. You’ll be hands-on with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps workflows, and engineering best practices like unit testing, code reviews, and design documentation
• 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)
• At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We’re looking for people to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we’re keen to speak with you
• Working across cross-functional teams launching new services and integrating complex systems with partners
• Working closely with product managers to shape solutions from idea to implementation
• Day to day support of feature development, tech debt removal, and platform improvements, all while supporting a culture of high standards through pairing, peer reviews, and coaching
• Contributing to architectural planning, retrospectives, and incident reviews, helping drive meaningful change. You’ll also take part in support rotations, including out-of-hours on-call, ensuring our systems stay reliable and responsive
• Being a part of wider engineering initiatives that shape how we work and grow as a community

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%
• 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.

• High proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering and large-scale live services. Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience of working in an agile methodology; used to code reviews and pairing
• Good understanding of technology stacks from networks up to applications
• Experience designing, supporting and troubleshooting production systems at scale
• Hands-on experience working directly with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, excellent debugging, troubleshooting skills
• Excellent experience coding and automating tasks in a high-level language, preferably Python
• Hands-on experience developing infrastructure-as-code with tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi following GitOps practices
• Good understanding of cloud security best practices and security compliance
• 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
• Experience in building/deploying tools related to data pipelines, ETL processes