Platform Engineer - AWS

Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description

As an experienced AWS Platform Engineer with a proven track record, you’ll confidently lead the implementation of AWS best practices across a team of engineers who are developing their expertise in AWS platform engineering. You’ll support the live service in AWS, ensuring stability and performance, and work closely with our infrastructure architect while focusing on core cloud-related operational activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Mentorship:

• Guide and mentor a team of engineers to enhance their AWS platform engineering skills
• Promote AWS best practices and drive automation standards within the team

Data Platform & Tools Support:

• Manage and support tools that ingest data, including Athena databases, and workflows
• Ensure seamless integration and performance of these tools within AWS

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Alignment:

• Work with the Infrastructure Architect to align on IaC strategies, utilising Ansible Tower and GitLab Pipelines for both AWS and on-prem environments

Benchmarking & Healthchecks:

• Develop and integrate standardised benchmarking and healthchecks for leveraging AWS capabilities

Vulnerability Patching:

• Develop creative solutions for vulnerability patching of large EC2 instances

S3 Integration:

• Support the integration of S3 into Double Helix to provide more cloud storage options

Qualifications:

• Deep, hands-on experience with building compute families (GPUs, CPUs) using cloud (AWS) services.
• Fluency in data storage services (S3, mount-point, data lakes, Lustre).
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines with GitLab.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to see the bigger picture.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills

Additional Information

Salary from £71,500

Closing date: Sunday 27th July at 23:00 (UK time)

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

• 30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
• A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
• Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
• A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Blended working arrangements