Senior Infrastructure & Data Platform Engineer
Employer: Little Journey
Location: The role is hybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK only.
Working hours: Full time
Salary: £75-82K per year
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Description
We’re at an exciting stage in our growth as a digital HealthTech company, with increasing traction across clinical trials and life sciences.
Over the past year, we’ve invested significantly in our application and data and infrastructure to support a scalable, reliable, and secure platform for the next phase of growth. We’re now looking for someone to take ownership of that platform, continuing to scale the capabilities and operational maturity in a health tech environment.
About the roleWe’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure and Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve the core infrastructure & data platform, and operational reliability of our health-tech product.
This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, data systems, DevOps, and operational resilience. You’ll be the person responsible for making sure our platform supports a great DevX experience is secure, observable, recoverable, and audit-ready, without slowing teams down. You’ll have significant influence over how the platform is designed and operated.
You’ll work closely with backend engineers, product squads, and leadership to design systems that scale safely, support regulated requirements, and are resilient in real-world operation.
Our tech stack and tooling include: GCP, Vercel, GitHub, Bugsnag, Sanity CMS,
You will report to the VP Engineering and will be part of our broader engineering team of about 10. This is a full-time role, either hybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK. We cannot sponsor visas to work in the UK.
What you’ll do
Infrastructure & Cloud (GCP)
Own and operate our GCP environment (networking, IAM, compute, storage, managed services)
Design and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
Ensure environments are secure, well-structured, and cost-aware
Act as a technical expert on cloud architecture decisions
Data & Platform
Own and evolve the data technology stack (data stores, pipelines, access patterns)
Ensure data systems are reliable, observable, and fit for analytics and product use
Define standards for data integrity, retention, access, and backup
Reliability, DevOps & Observability
Own CI/CD pipelines and release safety practices
Design and maintain observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerts)
Coordinate incident response, post-incident reviews, and remediation
Ensure teams can safely deploy and operate what they build
Security, Risk & AssuranceOwn infrastructure-level security posture (IAM, secrets, network controls)
Coordinate and support audits, penetration tests, and risk reviews
Design and run backup and disaster recovery testing (regular, proven recovery)
Proactively identify risks and lead mitigation planning
Ways of working
Produce clear documentation for architecture, runbooks, and operational processes
Partner with engineers to embed reliability and security into everyday delivery
Act as an escalation point for complex operational and infrastructure issues
Requirements
This role is suited to someone who can do the infrastructure technical work as well as manage the infrastructure operationally.
Required:
Strong hands-on experience running production infrastructure on GCP
Experience designing and operating data platforms in production
Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, and network controls
Practical experience with incident response, on-call, and post-mortems
Experience planning and executing backup, recovery, and resilience testing
Experience contributing to audits, managing penetration testing
Confidence writing and maintaining infrastructure as code
Confidence managing DevX tools e.g. CI/CD
Desirable:
Experience in health-tech or regulated domains is a plus but not required if you bring strong fundamentals.
Understand how to make a top-class developer experience that enables high velocity with control.
Have worked in regulated environments
Behaviours we’re looking for:A strong sense of ownership: you care about developer experience, reliability, security whilst maintaining a high delivery cadence; you care about responsible data handling.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
Data driven you use data and evidence to justify your decisions, thinking about now and next.
Pragmatism: you design guardrails, not bureaucracy
Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
A mindset of continuous improvement and risk awareness
Strong emphasis on clear documentation and runbooks
Benefits
Gross salary: £75-82K per year
28 days annual leave per year (plus public holidays)
£500 annual training budget
£200 home working budget (one-off)
Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice)
EMI share options
Flexible working with core hours
Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies
About Little Journey
Little Journey was founded by Dr Chris Evans, a paediatric anaesthetist and researcher who witnessed first-hand the impact that procedural anxiety, poor preparation, and inconsistent communication can have on patient experience, engagement, and clinical outcomes. Partnering with Sophie Copley, an expert in human-centred product design, the healthcare platform was developed and demonstrated significant benefits in improving care efficiency, compliance and patient experience. It was rapidly adopted across the NHS supporting children undergoing surgery, before being expanded to support a wide variety of common procedures.
Building on this initial success, Little Journey expanded into clinical trials, applying the same principles of personalised education, emotional support, and engagement to research settings. Our Life Science platform, Trial Flow, supports trial participants and their families across therapeutic areas, to alleviate the burdens they face as they navigate participating in a clinical trial. The platform is now a global solution, and we work with major pharmaceutical companies.
Little Journey is a Series A HealthTech start-up, and we are a highly collaborative, mission-driven organisation with a team of about 30 (including Product & Tech, Sales & Marketing, Operations & Delivery). We aim to change the future of personalised paediatric care, one empowered family at a time. We value honesty and integrity, trust and accountability, reflection and learning, proactive thinking, and a deep commitment to helping others.
Diversity & Inclusion
We encourage people from all walks of life to apply and strive to eliminate unconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.
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