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Associate Director, Platform Engineering

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the hybrid compute infrastructure, developer platform, and scientific compute environments powering machine learning and drug discovery work.

Role type

Senior IC platform engineering manager (hybrid infrastructure & MLOps)

Builds

Kubernetes-based clusters, scientific compute platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and internal services for genomic pipelines and model training/serving.

Domain

Biotech / Drug Discovery / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes, hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure, MLOps, CI/CD pipeline maturity, observability, disaster recovery, platform security (IAM, secrets, network policy), team leadership, technical strategy.

Preferred skills

Batch compute for scientific workloads, GPU compute for distributed training, compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).

Technologies

Kubernetes, Kubeflow, public cloud, on-premises infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve platform strategy with VP of Engineering and peers; set architectural standards for hybrid infrastructure; lead and develop the Platform Engineering team; ensure scientific compute platform reliability; drive CI/CD and developer tooling maturity; establish observability and disaster recovery; own platform security controls.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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