Senior Platform Engineer

Cell therapies have been shown to cure devastating and previously untreatable diseases like cancer by re-programming the patient's own immune system. Giving more patients access to these life-saving therapies requires a revolution in manufacturing and process automation.  

Cellular Origins, is enabling scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Our technology addresses the challenges associated with manufacturing at scale with an elegant robotic manufacturing automation solution that reduces cost and labour, eliminates human error, and increases efficiency. 

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Cellular Origins, you’ll be working with our software engineering teams to automate software build tasks and infrastructure, build self-service environments for engineers, and foster collaboration between dev and ops teams.

In this role, you’ll help to maintain and extend the existing factory architecture and core services. This includes on-prem hypervisors, IaaS/PaaS, to virtualised software containers. You’ll be a subject matter expert in platform infrastructure, providing help, guidance and technical input into infrastructure architecture, design, implementation and development support.

This also includes providing design input and advice as DevOpsSec, for software platforms to be deployed to cell-therapy automation factory, as well as internal infrastructure for development and continuous integration. 

This is an opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team and broaden your skills – you'll have the opportunity to work closely with the broader electronics, robotics and system engineering aspects of the system.

You will have a strong background in designing and deploying infrastructure to enable rapid and robust delivery of software to both Cloud and in-house environments, and your comprehensive technical skills will allow you to quickly understand new concepts and collaborate effectively with team members.

Essential:

• Strong understanding of DevOps and how to implement it effectively (Jenkins, CircleCI etc).
• Experience in setting up servers, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
• Proficiency in automation tools and scripting for infrastructure management (Terraform, Ansible, python, bash).
• Ability to build and manage continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with developers and other stakeholders to understand what they need from the platform 
• Experience designing and deploying infrastructure for software delivery in Cloud and on-prem environments.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of on-prem hypervisors and virtualized software containers (Proxmox/ESXi).
• Interest or experience in working with robotics, electronics, and automation systems.
• Understanding security in DevOps, particularly for automation in cell therapy manufacturing.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate new technologies into the platform.
• Strong ability to gather and refine technical and business requirements.
• This role will be a full time on-site position at our campus in Melbourn.

Cellular Origins is based on the TTP Campus, within purpose-built sustainable offices, labs and green surroundings, 10 miles south of Cambridge.  Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and collaboration, while providing you the freedom to do your best work.   

Our employee benefits include:  

• Annual bonus  
• 25 days holiday  
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary 
• Free lunch and all-day refreshments  
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants  
• Enhanced family friendly leave  
• Life insurance worth 6x salary  
• Electric car leasing scheme  
• Cycle to work scheme  
• Season ticket loan  
• Activities and community that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it’s lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel there’s something missing!