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Little Journey supports children & their families undergoing healthcare procedures or participating in clinical trials
Senior Infrastructure & Data Platform Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
37 days ago
Salary
£75K - £82K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Infrastructure & Data Platform Engineer
Little Journey
• Own and operate our GCP environment (networking, IAM, compute, storage, managed services) • Design and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) • Ensure environments are secure, well-structured, and cost-aware • Act as a technical expert on cloud architecture decisions • Own and evolve the data technology stack (data stores, pipelines, access patterns) • Ensure data systems are reliable, observable, and fit for analytics and product use • Define standards for data integrity, retention, access, and backup • Own CI/CD pipelines and release safety practices • Design and maintain observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerts) • Coordinate incident response, post-incident reviews, and remediation • Ensure teams can safely deploy and operate what they build • Own infrastructure-level security posture (IAM, secrets, network controls) • Coordinate and support audits, penetration tests, and risk reviews • Design and run backup and disaster recovery testing (regular, proven recovery) • Proactively identify risks and lead mitigation planning • Produce clear documentation for architecture, runbooks, and operational processes • Partner with engineers to embed reliability and security into everyday delivery • Act as an escalation point for complex operational and infrastructure issues
Job Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience running production infrastructure on GCP
- Experience designing and operating data platforms in production
- Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, and network controls
- Practical experience with incident response, on-call, and post-mortems
- Experience planning and executing backup, recovery, and resilience testing
- Experience contributing to audits, managing penetration testing
- Confidence writing and maintaining infrastructure as code
- Confidence managing DevX tools e.g. CI/CD
- Experience in health-tech or regulated domains is a plus but not required if you bring strong fundamentals.
- Understand how to make a top-class developer experience that enables high velocity with control.
- Have worked in regulated environments
- A strong sense of ownership: you care about developer experience, reliability, security whilst maintaining a high delivery cadence; you care about responsible data handling.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Data driven you use data and evidence to justify your decisions, thinking about now and next.
- Pragmatism: you design guardrails, not bureaucracy
- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A mindset of continuous improvement and risk awareness
- Strong emphasis on clear documentation and runbooks
Benefits
- Gross salary: £75-82K per year
- 28 days annual leave per year (plus public holidays)
- £500 annual training budget
- £200 home working budget (one-off)
- Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice)
- EMI share options
- Flexible working with core hours
- Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies
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