Solutions Architect

Job Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe. Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas includingnanopore 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.Oxford Nanopores sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieveshort to ultra-long read lengths.Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible, easy to use and fully scalable for any requirement.We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Metrichor Team as a Solutions Architect. This exciting role is responsible for maintenance and security of services and infrastructure of the cloud-based real-time biological solutions platform.The Details In this challenging role, youll work closely with other members of the Metrichor team to develop a fault-tolerant, scalable and secure platform for deployment and execution of various bioinformatics applications. As a Solutions Architect, youll participate in improving the existing platform by optimising the infrastructure deployment, orchestration of resources and scaling, monitoring and reporting of platform health, ensuring fault-tolerance and platform securityas well as application of current best practices in AWS. What Were Looking For...We want an enthusiastic and motivated Solutions Architect who can work relatively autonomously, but who can also contribute and communicate well within the small platform group as well as with other members of the Metrichor team. . The ideal candidate willbe result-orientated, have a positive can-do attitude and proven experience in Cloud/Infrastructure/Solutions Architect ure or in a DevOps role within an enterprise/commercial environment, building robust technical solutions. Youll also be able to demonstrate:- Strong knowledge of core AWS servicies - Application and cloud infrastructure deployemnt - Building secure and scalable services - Knowledge of best DevOps practices - Good scripting skills (perl, python, shell)Nice to have:-- Experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale computing or data processing platforms - AWS security - Cloud resources orchestration - Data management - Data streaming - Serverless architecture - Multi region deployment - Kubernetes - CDK/Terraform - AWS certification Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a persons gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits,qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.