We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our Customer Platforms team. Our team works with stakeholders across the business to deliver reliable, high-quality customer experience from end-to-end, from our corporate website to our critical business systems integration. The role is primarily focused on extending and improving our cloud infrastructure, but has the opportunity to extend into application development work. You will be working closely with a friendly, high-performing, cross-disciplinary team with knowledge and interests across our business and software stack.
- Infrastructure-as-code – working closely with the team to design and implement new features using AWS, terraform and GitLab.
- Observability and support – performing root-cause analysis of incidents and improving our OpenTelemetry/Grafana observability tools.
- Security – ensuring security by design, governance and compliance across our applications, monitoring vulnerabilities and implementing automated security testing.
- Continuous improvement and continuous delivery – ensuring we deploy confidently and quickly by improving and maintaining our testing and deployment processes in GitLab CI
We expect a strong candidate to show experience and expertise in:
- Infrastructure as Code in Terraform
- Deploying to AWS, especially ECS, CloudFront, Lambdas, EventBridge and SQS
- Securing applications and data in a hybrid cloud
- CI/CD Automation
- OpenTelemetry for observability
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
We are also keen to talk about:
- Cost control and calculation in cloud environments
- Asynchronous architectural patterns, including event-based architectures
- Programming experience or background
- Compliance with frameworks such as ISO270001, ISO9001 and ISO13485, GMP and GDPR
Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
Skills Required
- Experience with AWS including Fargate, CloudFront, Lambdas, EventBridge and SQS
- Expertise in CI/CD automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Oxford Nanopore Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered good to above average across many roles, with employer-provided ranges visible for several U.S. commercial and applications positions and company materials emphasizing market‑competitive base pay. Commercial and some senior technical posts, particularly in the U.S., are positioned as competitive and often paired with strong variable components.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — All‑employee share plans in the UK and a U.S. employee stock purchase plan indicate broad access to equity as part of total reward. Company communications highlight attractive bonus and share plans that add meaningful upside beyond base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. roles indicate strong health insurance and core protections, while official materials and country overviews reference private medical coverage and wellbeing support. These elements position the health package as a notable strength alongside cash compensation.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Insights
What We Do
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society. Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
