HDR UK requires the services of a research DevOps engineer to work on the next stage of its flagship Innovation Gateway (www.healthdatagateway.org) and associated software services. The Innovation Gateway was released in May 2020 and provides a key resource to discover and access health data resources for researchers and data custodians.  Its primary function is providing visibility to and supporting access requests for data sets by researchers in the UK and around the globe to health data that can support them in their quest to deliver scientific insights, that improve health and healthcare of the UK and worldwide populations.

The Gateway today holds information on over 750 data sets which researchers can securely request access to and is supported by over 60 data custodians across the UK and the globe.

These data sets have supported the publication of over 2,000 impactful papers at the cutting edge of scientific and medical discoveries.

The Gateway has been a critical deliverable in HDR UK’s first quinquennium (5 years) and we are really looking to scale up as we look forward into the future to support 1,000’s of researchers on a global basis discovery and gain access to data in a trustworthy and secure fashion, enabling discoveries that improve people’s lives.

The successful candidate will be expected to work as an integral part of the Gateway agile software development team, providing definition, implementation, operation and management for the infrastructure of healthdatagateway.org (Gateway) and all of its associated services.

This role is ideally suited to someone who has managed and maintained services for researchers who is looking to move from an academic role.

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