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Senior Platform Engineer
TTP · Cambridge, ENG, United Kingdom
Cambridge, ENG, United KingdomExp: 5+ yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Annual bonus; 10% employer pension contribution; private medical insurance for employees and dependants; enhanced family-friendly leave; life insurance worth six times salary; electric car leasing scheme; cycle-to-work scheme; season ticket loan
Location
Cambridge, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Platform Engineer designs and maintains the infrastructure and services that enable software testing, building, deployment, and factory production for robotic automation systems. The role spans on-premises hardware, virtualization, container orchestration, cloud platforms, and application software, with hands-on responsibility for CI/CD pipelines, factory network deployments, maintenance, and technical guidance on security and regulatory practices.
Benefits
25 days of holiday10% employer pension contributionPrivate medical insurance for employees and dependantsEnhanced family-friendly leaveLife insurance worth six times salaryElectric car leasing schemeCycle-to-work schemeSeason ticket loanAnnual bonus
Qualifications
- Experience designing and deploying infrastructure for software delivery to on-premises and remote environments
- Experience with servers, networking, storage, virtualization, containerization, or cloud infrastructure such as AWS or Azure
- Strong understanding of automation tools and scripting, including Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash
- Ability to design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines and produce high-quality technical documentation
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices
- Strong communication and collaboration skills when supporting developers and stakeholders
- Five years of experience in software, DevOps, platform, or infrastructure roles
- Degree or vocational qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
- Interest or experience in robotic automation or regulated environments is desirable
- Understanding of DevOps security practices is desirable
- Ability to gather and refine technical and business requirements is desirable
- Ability to evaluate and integrate new technologies into an existing platform is desirable
Responsibilities
- Design architecture for software testing, build, and deployment pipelines and factory software services
- Guide technical decisions across on-premises hardware, hypervisors, container orchestration, platform services, application software, robotics, and cloud
- Provide practical platform guidance to the engineering team
- Advise on regulatory and security practices for local CI and remote factory production environments
- Diagnose CI/CD pipeline issues and perform maintenance
- Deploy infrastructure into new factory networks
- Review team contributions
Skills
AnsibleAWSAzureBashBitbucketCircleCIGitHubJenkinsPythonTerraformDockerGitKubernetes
Degrees
Degree or vocational qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or
Industry
Cell therapy manufacturingRobotic automation
Relocation
No