Platform Engineer

Are you ready for a new beginning?

We need your talent, knowledge and dedication to better our world with biology.

Our purpose points the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity's biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It's how we've gotten so far. And it's how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless.

We're here to better our world with biology.

Join us as our new Platform Engineer for our R&D Data Science Platform

The Platform Engineer will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing our R&D data infrastructure. The engineer will work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure that data is accessible, reliable, and ready for analysis. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software and data engineering, excellent problem-solving skills, and the

ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining the features within our Data Science Platform
• Improving and scaling the platform features to enable efficient scientific data workflows
• Automating platform deployment and monitoring using tools like Ansible and Grafana

Welcome to Scientific Data Strategy and Systems

Our team provides the core platform and infrastructure for data storage, analysis, and data science activities in Research and Development (R&D). You will join a strong group of internal developers and engineers. We support core research processes and are responsible for many specialized IT systems. Your daily work will be in close collaboration with our internal teams and users. You will work in a diverse team of highly skilled people with competences across IT and biology.

In this role you'll make an impact by

• Enabling cutting-edge science by providing reliable data infrastructure 
• Ensuring operational stability of our platform - across databases, task execution, application hosting, workflow automation and data governance.
• Helping build scalable infrastructure for a global scientific audience

Potentially relevant experience

• A degree in IT, computer science or equivalent DevOps experience
• Hands on experience with development and operations of software systems in a Linux environment
• Strong experience with Python and SQL
• Comfortable with infrastructure orchestration frameworks (e.g Ansible)
• Experience with life-cycle management and governance in platform operations
• Hands-on experience with containerization and CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Fluency in spoken and written English
• Experience in biotech research is a plus

The person we are looking for has an open mindset to systems and services and can comprehend complex problems, driving strong solutions for the benefit of R&D in Novonesis globally. Some travel can be expected.

Location: Lyngby

Application deadline:

Contact details:  Senior Department Manager Vignir Isberg,

Could our purpose be yours? Then apply today

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