AWS Platform Engineer

Company Summary:

Quotient Therapeutics is a privately-held, early stage company developing breakthrough medicines informed by natural somatic genetic diversity present in patients. Through our work in somatic genomics, we are forging a new status quo for biopharma research and development across a broad pipeline of internal and partnered programs. 

The company was founded by Flagship Pioneering, an innovative enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category life sciences companies. Flagship Pioneering has created over 100 groundbreaking companies over the past twenty years, all of which are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna (MRNA), Generate Biomedicines, Sana Biotechnology (SANA), Tessera Therapeutics, Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), Indigo Agriculture, Seres Therapeutics (MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS).

Position Summary:

We are seeking a mid-level Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure that underpins our genomics-first drug discovery platform.

This varied and challenging role is suited to someone with solid cloud and DevOps foundations who enjoys solving real-world problems and continuously improving systems. Working within the Data Infrastructure team, you will collaborate closely with biologists, informaticians, and software engineers to support data pipelines, applications, and AI/ML workflows used across the company.

You will take ownership of meaningful parts of the platform while continuing to grow your skills across cloud architecture, security, and data-intensive systems. This role offers exposure to complex scientific workloads and the opportunity to shape how a modern biotech platform is built.

This role is based at the Chesterford Research Campus (vicinity of Cambridge) and reports to the Head of Data Engineering. Applicants require permission to work in the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate and improve our AWS-based platform across development and production environments.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (primarily CDK) for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation used across engineering teams.
• Support and optimise our use of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, Batch, ECS/EKS, and RDS.
• Improve observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and cost visibility.
• Troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and applications, working closely with engineers and scientists.
• Collaborate with non-cloud experts to understand requirements and translate them into practical solutions.
• Contribute to improving security practices (IAM, access control, auditing) and overall platform reliability.

Requirements:

We are looking for someone who combines practical experience with strong learning ability and problem-solving skills.

• ~2–5 years of experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Experience writing code or scripts (Python, Bash, or similar) in a production or project setting.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and modern software engineering practices.
• Working knowledge of core cloud services (compute, storage, networking, IAM).
• Experience troubleshooting and improving production systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work through unfamiliar challenges.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with engineers, scientists, and other stakeholders.
• Familiarity with some of the following: Observability tooling (CloudWatch, Grafana). Cloud security best practices. Managing large datasets. Data pipelines or data engineering workflows. Scientific/imaging/analytical workloads. Genomics, biology, or data-driven science.

ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING

Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health, sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies have addressed humanity most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE Change the World list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company annual list of the World Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xLXBCqxk3LTk9pwcZf3CEkjif?domain=flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.