Senior Platform Engineer, I.T. Department

Senior Platform Engineer, I.T. Department - 1 Mabledon Place, London

Tavistock House, Central London

Up to £90,000 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Department: I.T.

Location: Tavistock House, WC1H 9JP

Salary range: Up to £90,000 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance

About us:

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 3,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.

Who are you?

You are an experienced platform, cloud or DevOps engineer.

You are comfortable working with Microsoft Azure and understand how to design, automate and support cloud infrastructure at scale. You have experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes and enjoy solving problems around reliability, performance and security.

You believe infrastructure should be treated as code, and you are comfortable working with technologies such as Terraform, Bicep or similar tools to create repeatable and maintainable environments.

You enjoy working closely with software developers and helping teams deliver software quickly and safely through well-designed CI/CD pipelines.

You understand that technologies evolve and are always curious to learn.

You are capable of balancing technical excellence with pragmatism, making sensible decisions that deliver value to the business.

You have a strong belief that systems should be secure, observable and resilient by design.

Desirable experience: Cloud security, identity management, networking, cost optimisation, and experience working in a regulated environment such as healthcare.

How we work

This is a hybrid role based in London, with a minimum expectation of two days per week in the office.

You will work closely with software developers, infrastructure specialists and security teams across multiple programmes, including Synapse, our customer-facing digital platform, and the cloud-based systems that support laboratory operations.

We favour small, incremental changes over large projects, using automation, infrastructure as code and modern DevOps practices to deliver reliable services and continuously improve our platforms.

At TDL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

• Training and development opportunities - supporting professional development


• Annual salary review - salary and progression are aligned to our internal transparent pay structure (Progression Plus), supporting career development and structured annual salary reviews


• Discounted gym membership - we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms


• Cash healthcare plan - cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians


• Sick Pay Entitlement - one month’s full pay and one month’s half pay after probation


• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover


• Life Assurance - providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)


• Employee Assistance Programme - supporting staff wellbeing


• Season Ticket Loan Scheme - interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket


• Perkbox - Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts


• Company Pension Scheme - company and staff contributions which increase with service


• Competitive annual leave allowance -24 days.


• Flexible working hours - we support and offer flexibility around shift patterns and working schedule

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.

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