Senior Infrastructure & Data Platform Engineer

Accountabilities:

• Own and operate cloud infrastructure on GCP, including networking, IAM, compute, storage, and managed services, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-efficient environments.

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), ensuring consistency and repeatability across systems and deployments.

• Take ownership of the data platform, including data stores, pipelines, access patterns, and governance to ensure reliability and usability across product and analytics use cases.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and DevOps tooling to enable safe and efficient software delivery.

• Define and implement observability standards, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident response processes.

• Lead operational resilience efforts, including backup strategies, disaster recovery testing, incident management, and post-mortem analysis.

• Own infrastructure-level security, including IAM, secrets management, network controls, and support for audits and penetration testing.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability, security, and best practices into everyday development workflows.

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience operating production infrastructure on GCP.

• Proven ability to design and manage data platforms in production environments.

• Deep understanding of cloud security principles, including IAM, networking, and access controls.

• Experience with incident response, on-call operations, and post-incident reviews.

• Practical experience designing and executing backup, recovery, and disaster resilience strategies.

• Experience supporting security audits and coordinating penetration testing activities.

• Strong proficiency with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).

• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling to support developer workflows.

• Background in regulated environments or health-tech is a plus, but strong fundamentals are essential.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset with a focus on reliability, security, and continuous improvement.

Benefits:

• Gross salary: £75,000 – £82,000 per year

• 28 days annual leave plus public holidays

• £500 annual training and development budget

• £200 home working setup budget (one-off)

• Up to 6% employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice)

• EMI share options

• Flexible working with core hours

• Enhanced parental and family leave policies

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