Infrastructure Architect (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

About the Role

As a HPC Infrastructure Architect you will be a responsible for producing as-is and to-be technical landscapes, undertaking thorough gap analysis of the current environment, and have the ability to think strategically to define the businesses Architectual directions. This role sits within the HPC (High Performance Compute) Team within the Scalable Tech Service. You may have previously worked under a variety of different job titles within engineering and/or architecture, and you may have worked in a variety of organisational contexts. Whatever your past experience, it will have given you both technical breadth and depth.



As a HPC Infrastructure Architect you will key in defining the future states of HPC for the Healthcare and Research Service for both on-premise and AWS.



About the Tech Stack

Our HPC clusters are built in our on-premises data centres and in AWS. We use IBM LSF for our workload management currently. Hardware wise we have a large footprint of FGPA Servers (DRAGEN) both on-premises and in AWS, as well as standard HPC Compute nodes both on-premises and in AWS (c7i). We also run a Nvidia DGX’s cluster on premise only.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Work as an Infrastructure Architect alongside the HPC Team within Scalable Tech and externally with Healthcare and Research teams - consisting of Product Managers, Squad Engineers, Bioinformaticians, Data Scientists and other subject matter experts to continuously evolve a roadmap for change.
• Be the leader and subject matter expert with a complete view of HPC Architecture at Genomics England end-to-end from Configuration Management (both on Prem in and AWS) to HPC Queue Design, to the load balancing design of login nodes.
• Working in a Hybrid environment – the role is Hybrid covering both AWS and on-premises. The expectation is that you share your time on equally (although this may change based on work quarter to quarter)
• Primary communicator and go-to person for HPC Architecture – you will be the primary resource for discussion and presentation when it comes to changes to HPC Architecture. This is important to maintain an end-to-end view of the estate in a cross-service environment.

Qualifications

While we recognise the value of relevant qualifications or certifications, we are primarily interested in your real-world experience.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of HPC Technologies – Including but not limited to IBM LSF, NextFlow, Slurm, AWS Batch.
• Experience working within an On-Premises estate and working to build/design platform on premise considering physical networking, Bare Metal Servers, and Hardware Lifecycles.
• Strong Experience and Knowledge of AWS
• DevOps Experience - CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, operational monitoring and alerting – we want someone that will be able to architect understanding what good looks like on the DevOps side.
• Detail orientated with strong technical documentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a temperament that builds trust and connection within and across squads through open, honest communication
• Comfortable engaging responsively with teams both remotely and in person when required
• Ability to navigate rapidly to effective solutions through engaged and inclusive listening, clarity of thought, clear documentation, and succinct presentation
• Experience shaping and guiding architectural choices, both tactical as well as long-term architectural strategy and direction
• Experience working with GitLab Pipelines and GitLab CI/CD is a must have

Desirable Certifications:

• For AWS Solutions Architect to at least Associate level is desired
• TOGAF Certification or equivalent
• Ansible Certification is a bonus
• Terraform Certification is a bonus

Salary from: £86,000



Closing Date: Sunday 22nd June at 23:00 (UK time)



Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. 

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties.  Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.