Purpose of the post
HDR UK requires the services of an experienced Cloud DevOps engineer to work within its technology team, working on the Health Data Gateway and other software developed by HDR UK. You will primarily but not exclusively be working to enhance the Gateway to support our brain health initiatives. These include NEURii, the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative Data Pilots, Motor Neuron Disease (MND), Traumatic Brain injury hub and a collaboration between UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), HDR UK and Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), the Dementia Trials Accelerator (DTA). The DTA initiative is funded by the MRC, NIHR and the Office for Life Sciences designed to enable the UK Government Dementia Mission, with a vision to rapidly position the UK as the destination of choice for investment and innovation in the delivery of clinical trials of new therapies for dementia, rapidly delivering significant patient and NHS benefits.
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team that will develop an over-arching interoperable infrastructure that seeks to bring together dementia related UK data assets and ensures they are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable (FAIR) and can support identification of relevant patient cohorts for participation in clinical trials. The successful candidate will be expected to work within an Agile software development team, providing pipelines and processes to support the Dementia Trails Accelerator Portal. This role will work closely with the existing cloud and devops staff to integrate new pipelines and processes into the broader HDR UK infrastructure, and be responsible for building, automating and testing systems.
Main responsibilities
- Responsible for pipelines and processes for the Dementia Trials Accelerator and their integration into the existing HDR UK infrastructure
- Support for the wider HDR UK infrastructure
- Managing infrastructure using Infrastructure As Code (Terraform)
- Building and maintaining the CI/CD Pipeline and Github Workflows
- Managing Dev, Staging and Production environments
- Responsible for tuning database persistence, search tools and application layer
- Documenting and recording the process of deployment from development to production
- Ensuring strategy and architectural decisions consider infrastructure implications
- Work across brain health initiatives and the broader technology team to drive synergy and coherence from a DevOps perspective
- Teamwork expectations
- The Dev-Ops role is a critical team role in Agile scrum and a high degree of team working is expected of the successful candidate
- Collaboration with software development colleagues on CI/CD, testing and fortnightly deployments across test environment as an integral part of the Gateway Agile delivery organisation
- Working closely with our scrum master and test lead for regular deployments and managing issues that may impact releases
- Collaboration with the solution architect on decisions that impact infrastructure
- Strong collaboration with existing Technology team and working within its supporting infrastructure and processes
- Flexibility to contribute to other projects across the institute based on business need
Skills
Essential:
- Demonstrable knowledge of Docker
- Demonstrable experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD
- Proficiency in writing, testing, and maintaining Terraform scripts to manage Infrastructure. Including Terraform modules & Terraform registry.
- Clear communications skills and comfortable holding a critical high-profile role within the team
- Familiarity with cloud networking concepts (VPC, subnets, firewalls, load balancing, etc)
- Proficient in English
Desirable:
- Monitoring and maintenance of Kubernetes cluster
- GCP certification
- An understanding of research delivery within the public sector, academia and/or industry
Please note, as we are a UK-based organisation, applicants must be living in, and eligible to work in, the UK. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
