DevOps Engineer

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help shape and scale the core infrastructure that powers our products. In this role, you'll partner closely with cross-functional teams, build and improve CI/CD pipelines, and drive the DevOps practices that enable fast, reliable software delivery. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll influence standards, mentor others, and help create the tools, automation, and environments that empower teams across the organisation. If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, improving developer experience, and building platforms that scale, this is the place to make a real impact. What we'll get you doing: Building and improving CI/CD pipelines and automation to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable delivery of software into production. Driving DevOps culture and best practices, including IaaC, shift left testing, and self-service tooling for engineering teams. Supporting and mentoring teams, providing documentation and guidance to help them get the best out of our platform and tooling. Managing and maintaining platform environments, ensuring performance, availability, compliance with our Quality Management System, and participating in the on-call rotation when needed.

You bring 5-8 years of experience in building and operating AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2/EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudWatch), delivering secure, scalable, highly available systems and guiding teams on cloud best practices. You deliver production-grade IaC with Terraform (modules, workspaces, policy checks), creating consistent, repeatable multi-environment setups and reducing manual effort. You have solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes, applying containerisation and orchestration concepts to design scalable, reliable deployment patterns and support modern cloud native infrastructure. You have built and maintain robust pipelines with Git and Jenkins (or GitHub Actions/GitLab CI), enabling fast, safe releases. Writing clean automation in Bash, Python, or Java that removes toil, streamlines workflows, and boosts developer productivity. You have 5+ years of Linux administration (Ubuntu/Amazon Linux/RHEL), improving performance and reliability through tuning and automation. It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in: Exposure to AWS Cost Optimisation & FinOps practices - e.g., analysing cloud spend, rightsizing workloads, using Savings Plans/Reserved Instances, and improving cost efficiency across environments. Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, enabling better support for platform services and application teams. Exposure to observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Opensearch, Splunk ), helping drive better reliability and insights into system performance. Relevant AWS certifications like DevOps Engineer - Professional, demonstrating deep expertise in CI/CD, automation, reliability, and cloud operations

ABOUT IDBS IDBS helps BioPharma organisations unlock the potential of AI/ML to improve the lives of patients. As a trusted long-term partner to 80% of the top 20 global BioPharma companies1, IDBS delivers powerful cloud software and services specifically designed to meet the evolving needs of the BioPharma sector. IDBS, a Danaher company, leverages 35 years of scientific informatics expertise to help organisations design, execute and orchestrate processes, manage, contextualize and structure data and gain valuable insights throughout the product lifecycle, from R&D through manufacturing. Known for its signature IDBS E-WorkBook software, IDBS has extended its flexible, scalable solutions to the IDBS Polar and PIMS cloud platforms to help scientists make smarter decisions with assured confidence in both GxP and non-GxP environments.