Relationrx
Associate Director, Platform Engineering
Salary not disclosedOnsite
- Engineering
- London
- Full time
- 3d ago
About the role
As Associate Director, Platform Engineering, you will lead the team responsible for the hybrid compute infrastructure, developer platform, and scientific compute environments that power machine learning and drug discovery. You will define and evolve the platform strategy, ensuring it meets the needs of computational scientists while maintaining high standards for reliability, security, and scalability. This role involves managing a team of engineers and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver robust, production-grade infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the VP of Engineering and peers across Engineering, Data Science and Machine Learning to define and evolve Relation’s platform strategy.
- Own the architectural strategy for our Kubernetes-based clusters and broader hybrid infrastructure, setting the technical standards and guardrails.
- Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team, hiring and retaining exceptional engineers.
- Own the scientific compute platform, ensuring it reliably and efficiently meets the evolving needs of our Machine Learning and Data Science teams.
- Drive the maturity of our CI/CD pipelines, internal services and developer tooling.
- Establish comprehensive observability and robust disaster recovery and failover strategies across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Own Relation’s platform security controls, including IAM, secrets management, network policy and vulnerability management.
Required skills
- Platform Engineering
- Infrastructure Engineering
- DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Hybrid infrastructure
- Cloud environments
- MLOps
- Kubeflow
- GPU compute
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Security controls
Nice to have
- ISO 27001
- SOC 2
- GDPR
About the Company
Relation is a sector-defining TechBio company developing transformational medicines by leveraging single-cell multi-omics, functional assays, and machine learning. The company operates in a matrixed, interdisciplinary environment with state-of-the-art wet and dry labs in London.