
About Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park, UK, with a global presence across the US, APAC, and Europe.
We bring together expertise from science, engineering, and software to build technology that enables real-time analysis of DNA and RNA at any scale.
The Role
You will take ownership of core infrastructure, ensuring systems are reliable, well-maintained, and continuously improving. The role blends system administration, troubleshooting, and automation, with plenty of scope to simplify and streamline how things are done.
You’ll work closely with other engineers, development teams, manufacturing and compliance and development teams, focusing on keeping environments stable and usable rather than introducing unnecessary complexity.
Key Responsibilities
What We’re Looking For
Essential Skills
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What Success Looks Like
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working close to the systems, taking ownership, and making things better over time. You should be comfortable balancing automation with hands-on operational work and motivated by keeping environments reliable and efficient.
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.
If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.

Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone.
We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data.
We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society.
Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.