Cloud Engineer, Oxford-GSK Institute of Molecular and Computational Medicine

We are seeking to appoint a Cloud Engineer to join the multidisciplinary Oxford-GSK Institute of Molecular & Computational Medicine, based within the Nuffield Department of Medicine.

The Institute is built around fellows and Oxford-GSK project teams located across different departments within the Medical Sciences Division of the University. The initial projects focus on neurodegeneration and the central nervous system, specifically Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis but it is anticipated the range of activities will expand into other research areas in future.

You will be leading the design, planning, provisioning, ongoing maintenance and development of the IMCM Data Platform, and creating and updating documentation for the IMCM-specific aspects of the Data Platform. You will identify potential tools that can enhance the observability capabilities of the platform. This includes setup monitoring of the Platform to inform capacity planning and help spot potential problems before they affect researchers. You will be tasked with ensuring the security of the Platform is in line with the security guidelines provided by the University infosec teams and also from GSK. This includes developing and applying security policies (policy-as-code), applying updates and configuration checks, arranging penetration tests if needed.

It is essential that you are educated to degree level, with relevant experience. You will have extensive experience of deploying workloads across virtualisation platforms at scale, and experience of cloud platform engineering for production services. GCP experience is essential; experience with an additional provider preferred (Azure). You will have hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, and experience of CI/CD pipelines like github actions, jenkins etc.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. Your supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience.

This position is offered full time on a fixed term contract until 30 September 2027 and is funded by the GSK.

Only applications received before 12 midday on 26 November 2024 will be considered. Please quote 174974 on all correspondence.

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