Senior Software Engineer (Platform & DevOps)
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£52,300
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2139 (85% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £52,300, and Nxera Pharma is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2134 (Programmers and software development professionals, The title is Senior Software Engineer and includes backend development) or SOC 2133 (IT business analysts, architects and systems designers, Focus on cloud infrastructure and platform architecture). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
About the role
Senior Software Engineer (Platform & DevOps)
About the Role
We are looking for a pragmatic Software Engineer to help build and scale our computational drug discovery platform. You will develop the core platform, automate infrastructure, and ensure our workflows are reproducible, reliable, and production-ready. This is a hands-on engineering role that spans backend development, cloud infrastructure, workflow orchestration, and DevOps.
You will work closely with computational chemists, machine learning engineers, and scientists to turn research workflows into scalable production systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain the core platform and backend services.
- Build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code.
- Develop, deploy, and monitor containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes/ECS where appropriate.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery.
- Design workflow orchestration systems (e.g. Prefect) for large-scale computational pipelines.
- Improve platform reliability, observability, monitoring, and logging.
- Optimize compute infrastructure for high-performance workloads, including GPU resources.
- Work with engineering and scientific teams to productionize new computational methods.
- Improve developer experience through tooling, automation, documentation, and internal libraries.
- Ensure platform security, scalability, and operational excellence.
Required Qualifications
- Strong software engineering experience with Python.
- Experience building backend services and APIs.
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native application development.
- Strong understanding of Docker and containerised deployments.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK or similar).
Nice to Have
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster.
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS Batch, ECS, or Slurm.
- Experience managing GPU infrastructure.
- Experience with MLOps tools such as MLflow.
- Experience building scientific computing or data platforms.
- Knowledge of computational chemistry, molecular modelling, or bioinformatics.
- Experience with distributed computing and large-scale data processing.
- Experience with LLMs, MCP, and agentic systems.
What You'll Build
- Scalable computational workflows.
- Cloud infrastructure for large-scale scientific computing.
- Internal platform services and developer tooling.
- Automated deployment pipelines.
- Monitoring, logging, and operational tooling.
- Infrastructure that enables researchers to run complex computational workflows with minimal operational overhead.
What We're Looking For
We value engineers who enjoy owning systems end-to-end. The ideal candidate is comfortable moving between writing production-quality code, automating infrastructure, debugging distributed systems, and improving platform reliability. You should enjoy solving practical engineering problems and working closely with scientific teams to translate research into scalable software.
Technologies
Typical technologies include:
- Python
- AWS (Batch, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Docker
- Prefect
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform/CDK
- PostgreSQL
- Linux
- Redis (optional)
- Kubernetes (nice to have)
- MLflow (nice to have)
- Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry (nice to have)
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Nxera Pharma, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Nxera Pharma holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2139 going rate of £52,300. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.