DevOps Engineer

Our HeathTech client is seeking a DevOps Engineer. MFK Recruitment has successfully placed four engineers with this start-up over the past three years — each thriving in their roles and contributing to its rapid growth

The successful candidate will work 100% remotely, from anywhere in the UK or Europe. 

Salary – The company offers a competitive, regionally adjusted salary. For instance, in the UK, the salary range is typically between £70,000 and £100,000. Compensation in other locations may vary to reflect the local cost of living and market conditions. The company also offers very generous equity.

About my client:

They envision a world where groundbreaking medical therapies are judged using all available evidence and the best possible software, where the data and science are transparent to companies and regulators alike to make the best possible decisions faster and with greater accuracy and confidence. They’re developing innovations for clinical research and public health authorities.

While initiatives exist that have brought standardization for clinical trial data structure, lengthy analysis and submission cycles remain, while increasing trial complexity and numbers present substantial challenges in decision-making, ultimately slowing the speed of medical progress. The products they build empower the pharmaceutical sector and regulators to analyze and perform quality control studies faster, with fewer resources, and at lower cost, increasing the rate at which innovation enters the market to provide improved and safer therapies for devastating diseases.

Culture:

My client’s mission is to build the future of healthcare. To help them succeed, they’re creating a unique employee culture. They’re fanatically customer-obsessed, crafting world-class products that customers love with every interaction. They take extreme ownership and accountability of their work, seeing whatever they do through to completion. They communicate candidly and directly with each other, even when it's uncomfortable. They’re innately curious, open to alternative perspectives and invest passionately in their own continuous growth.

DevOps Engineer - Role Description:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for the infrastructure used by our world-class engineering team and our customers. You will be exposed and expected to work with the latest technologies to build clean, efficient, and performant infrastructure and application deployments in secure cloud environments. As part of our core team, you will join us in troubleshooting customer issues, finding root causes, and deploying required fixes to ensure maximal performance and uptime.

You will directly contribute to our overall efficiency and success by building and maintaining the rails on which our software is built and brought to our customers. Their application stack is currently based on Postgres, Next.js, and Java and Python, deployed via Docker/Kubernetes in the cloud (AWS/Azure). We run code and data analysis pipelines based on ANTLR4 and Python orchestrated by Argo Workflows. Git is where our code lives, and Github Actions is how it gets out into the world. We monitor our infra with Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.

We are currently expanding our core products, our tooling automatically extracts full dataset and column-level data lineages and dependencies from existing clinical trials to enable validation, understanding, modification, communication, as well as trial code and data reuse. This means clinical trials are analyzed and validated faster, better, and at lower costs to the benefit of all of humanity.

Requirements:

• Substantial experience architecting and implementing cloud infrastructure and application deployments at scale (Terraform or similar, Kubernetes or similar, Docker)
• Understanding of networking and experience troubleshooting integrated infrastructures in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience building and owning continuous integration, testing, and deployment workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar)
• Experience logging and monitoring infrastructure and applications for health, performance, and security
• Experience building/maintaining data processing workflows using queues and event-driven triggers (Argo)
• Strong understanding of client/server architecture
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Understanding of and strong conviction for SRE principles
• Security first mindset
• We & mission mindset
• Iteration mindset
• “If it’s not in code and documented, it doesn’t exist”-mindset

Bonus points:

• Cloud Security experience (IAM, network segmentation, hardening of cloud services/containers)
• Security-focused infrastructure as code
  • ○ Checkov, Semgrep, OWASP ZAP, Trivy, secrets scanning, or similar
• Experience with regulatory framework implementations (SOC2, ISO 27001, CE+, HIPAA, GDPR, IGx)

Benefits:

• What you build impacts the lives of people around the world
• Highly collaborative, ambitious and world-class team
• Employee Stock Options Plan
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Additional benefits depending on country of residence