Level: 4-5

Role Type: Permanent or Contract

Location: Hybrid - work on site in our London office 3x/wk

The Mission

Our platform is transforming life sciences automation. It already saves lives — and now we’re scaling it globally. To do that, we need a world-class containerisation and platform strategy that balances local deployments, cloud scale, and automation-first practices.

This is your chance to own the platform layer of a product that scientists worldwide will depend on — delivering infrastructure that is modular, automated, and built to scale with minimal effort.

The Role

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on contributor and a technical leader driving the containerisation and automation strategy. You’ll design solutions that run seamlessly in local deployments and scale reliably across AWS (and ideally Azure/GCP too).

You’ll be building greenfield infra iteratively: starting small, delivering value quickly, and evolving the platform into a global-scale system that just works.

What You’ll Do

• Containerisation & Orchestration: Lead the design and deployment of Kubernetes clusters across local and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Automation by Default: Define and implement automation-first practices using IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux, GitHub Actions).

• Resilient Platforms: Build for global scale with low operational effort, ensuring performance, resilience, and modularity.

• Greenfield to Global: Deliver infrastructure iteratively — shipping usable systems early while laying the foundations for future growth.

• Observability & Reliability: Deploy and operate monitoring, logging, and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and similar.

• Security & Secrets Management: Integrate tools like Vault, Consul, Traefik, and service meshes to secure and streamline deployments.

• Collaboration: Work closely with product engineers, data teams, and ML engineers to ensure the platform accelerates delivery.

What You Bring

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and Docker, with hands-on experience in both local clusters and cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• A proven track record of delivering containerised solutions in product companies.

• Strong background in automation (IaC, CI/CD, GitOps) as a default way of working.

• Experience iterating greenfield solutions into production-ready, global-scale platforms.

• Comfort with supporting tech: Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Vault, Consul, Traefik, NATS.

• Product/platform mindset — balancing speed of delivery with long-term maintainability.

Nice to Have

• Experience with hybrid deployments (cloud + edge).

• Exposure to high-volume or mission-critical products.

• Familiarity with service meshes and advanced container networking.

Why Join Us

• Shape the platform layer of a global product that directly impacts human health.

• Build automated, containerised infra at the bleeding edge of scale and simplicity.

• Join a senior engineering team working closely with product, data, and ML peers.

• Hybrid working: 3 days in our London office, balanced with flexibility.

• Competitive package, plus the chance to do career-defining, meaningful work.

🚀 If you’re a staff-level platform engineer ready to shape how containerisation and automation power a global product — this is your role.

UK Team Benefits:

🍎 Vitality Health Insurance

Private healthcare that incentives a healthy lifestyle

👀  Eye Care

Get your eyes tested once a year on us!

🚗 Salary Sacrifice - EV

Sacrifice some of your monthly salary in exchange for a company car, provided by your Employer

🚲 Salary Sacrifice - Bike & Tech

Sacrifice some of your monthly salary in exchange for bike and tech products, provided by your Employer

🧘🏼‍♀️ Wellbeing & Support

Support for both your physical and mental health

☀️ Wellbeing & Development Allowance

Invest in your own well-being, personal growth, and hobbies

💙 Spill & Employee Assistance Programme

Access the therapy for you and your family through Spill

😊 Additional Leave

Time off for dependents, 'Me days', and volunteering days off

👵🏼 Pension Scheme

Plan for retirement with NEST

🫂 Group Life & Critical Illness cover

Life insurance - for a piece of mind

🎂 Birthday 

Time off for your Birthday

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Discrimination of any kind based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status is strictly prohibited.