Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We are looking for a Platform Engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software engineering. You're someone who loves solving complex problems, writing clean code, and building scalable systems that make a real-world impact. This role involves enhancing and maturing one of the largest health data platforms in the world, driving improvements, fixing bugs, and supporting a system that truly matters. You’ll be hands-on with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps workflows, and engineering best practices like unit testing, code reviews, and design documentation.

🏢 About Our Future Health

At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention, detection, and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We’re looking for people to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we’re keen to speak with you.

🎯 The Role

You’ll be working across cross-functional teams launching new services and integrating complex systems with partners. You’ll work closely with product managers to shape solutions from idea to implementation. Your day-to-day will involve support of feature development, tech debt removal, and platform improvements, all while supporting a culture of high standards through pairing, peer reviews, and coaching.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Working across cross-functional teams launching new services and integrating complex systems with partners.
• Working closely with product managers to shape solutions from idea to implementation.
• Day to day support of feature development, tech debt removal, and platform improvements.
• Contributing to architectural planning, retrospectives, and incident reviews.
• Participating in support rotations, including out-of-hours on-call, ensuring our systems stay reliable and responsive.
• Being a part of wider engineering initiatives that shape how we work and grow as a community.

📌 Required Qualifications

• High proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering and large-scale live services (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Hands-on experience developing infrastructure-as-code with tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi following GitOps practices.
• Excellent experience coding and automating tasks in a high-level language, preferably Python.
• Hands-on experience working directly with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, excellent debugging, troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in building/deploying tools related to data pipelines, ETL processes.
• Confident with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker.
• Experience deploying open-source technologies such as Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Postgres and related CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding of cloud security best practices and security compliance.
• Experience designing, supporting and troubleshooting production systems at scale.
• Good understanding of technology stacks from networks up to applications.
• Experience of working in an agile methodology; used to code reviews and pairing.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with participant-facing websites, import and processing of high-volume health, NHS and genetic datasets.
• Experience with de-identification/sharing of data into accredited Trusted Research Environments (TREs).

🎁 Benefits

Salary from £58,000 per annum. We are interested in applications from people with a range of experience for this role.

• Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.
• £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Our Future Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employ.