Devops Engineer : Elekta

Want to join a team with a mission to improve and save lives?  

We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers – healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities.

We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details!

Devops Engineer 

Help patients get life-saving treatment, as a Devops Engineer within our talented team of Engineers developing medical device control systems software for our world leading Radiation Therapy Treatment systems. We are looking for an experienced Devops Engineer who can facilitate the lifecycle, quality, and integration of our Control Systems software development.

At Elekta we believe patients should have access to – and benefit from – precise, personalised radiation therapy. Elekta’s Precision Radiation Medicine is revolutionizing cancer care. Bringing together science, technology, and clinical intelligence, we are working towards a future where everyone who needs it can benefit from precise and individually tailored radiotherapy treatments. We are giving millions of patients the chance to live more moments that matter.

We are expanding the team working on the control system software for our cutting-edge Linear Accelerator. The position involves organising and documenting our automated continuous processes, addressing promptly feedback, queries, and improvements. Technologies include Jenkins, Python, vSphere, ESXi, Linux, with a plan to move toward microservice-based architecture and cloud Devops. Design quality is key in this safety critical solution.

The role includes an excellent benefits and is based in Crawley near to Gatwick airport, in our purpose built modern and spacious UK office with good transport links via rail, bus, and car.

Apply with a CV using our web portal, it is a multi-phase interview process including an initial 30-minute phone interview and a face to face interview with technical test.

Mandatory skills:

• Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
• Fluent in English with strong communication skills
• DevOps Tool stacks like Jenkins, VMWare, Jira, Subversion
• Experience of Unit testing, automated tests, and CI/CD
• Experience in Cloud DevOps
• At least one scripting language (Python, PowerShell)
• Effective problem-solving skills
• Structured and professional approach to engineering
• Knowledge and understanding of software engineering disciplines, practices, and techniques
• Understanding and experience of Agile

Advantageous skills:

• Static analysis tools
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and their associated deployment utilities, APIs, and CLI tooling.
• Understanding and experience of the overall SDLC for application development
• Previous experience of Medical Devices (or other regulated/safety critical areas)
• Network planning and protocols
• SAFe methodologies