Platform Engineer - Pathogen

At the Ellison Institute of Technology, we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We're seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to manage and develop the infrastructure behind our data platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and efficient.

Requirements

• Manage object data storage, ensuring efficient design, tiering, and access controls.
• Build and maintain the research compute environment for bioinformatics pipelines and interactive analytics.
• Ensure the data platform complies with disaster recovery standards.
• Manage cloud resources to set standards and automate deployments.
• Collaborate with the AI and Robotics team to contribute to and reuse modular assets using Terraform code models.
• Automate the deployment of tools within the research environment.
• Monitor all platform components for availability, cost, and performance.
• Support R&D activities to test novel approaches and Oracle Cloud usage.
• Support data ingestion from a global network of distributed sequencing devices.
• Maintain platform security in alignment with EIT standards.
• Work with architects and engineers to build optimized data platform components, including genomic variant stores, sequence stores, and pathogen analytics databases.
• Partner with the DevSecOps engineer to automate deployments using a standard toolchain.
• Enable engineers to perform common tasks through automated self-service scripts.
• Support system administration and operations across environments.
• Collaborate with engineers to learn from incidents and implement improvements.

Benefits

• Enhanced holiday pay
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance
• Hospital Cash Plan
• Therapy Services
• Perk Box
• Electrical Car Scheme