Software Engineer

We are looking for a Software 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 requires strong technical expertise delivering secure, scalable and reliable systems, working with AWS, CI/CD automation, Python and TypeScript.

You will be working closely with a friendly, high-performing, cross-disciplinary team with knowledge and interests across our business and software stack.

Key responsibilities

• Infrastructure-as-code â€" working closely with the team to design and implement new features using AWS, terraform and GitLab.

• Observability and support â€" performing root-cause analysis of incidents and improving our OpenTelemetry/Grafana observability tools.

• DevSecOps â€" ensuring security, governance and compliance across our applications using a shift-left approach, monitoring vulnerabilities and implementing automated security testing.

• Continuous improvement and continuous delivery â€" ensuring we deploy confidently and quickly by improving and maintaining our testing and deployment processes in GitLab CI

• Data management â€" ensuring the integrity, reliability and security of our data across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and Storyblok.

Essential skills

We expect a strong candidate to show experience and expertise in:

• Implementing and advocating a DevOps and DevSecOps culture

• AWS, especially Fargate, CloudFront, Lambdas, EventBridge and SQS

• Securing applications and data in a hybrid cloud

• CI/CD Automation, Infrastructure as Code in Terraform

• OpenTelemetry for observability

Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills Desired skills We are also keen to talk about:

• Packaging, testing and running Python and Node.js applications
• Cost control and calculation in cloud environments
• API integration into business systems such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and D365
• Asynchronous architectural patterns, including event-based architectures
• Authentication using OAuth2.0 or SAML
• Integration testing and data contracts
• 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.

Do you have experience in TypeScript?