OrganOx is a commercial stage organ technology company dedicated to developing technologies to improve outcomes for patients with acute or chronic organ failure. The company was established as a spin out of the University of Oxford in 2008 and is now part of the Terumo Group. OrganOx is a pioneer in normothermic machine perfusion (NMP). It's flagship platform, the metra®, is available for use in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Australia. It has been utilized in over 7,000 liver transplants to date to keep donor livers in a metabolically active state outside the body enabling longer preservation times and functional assessment of the organ prior to transplant, leading to an increased number of organs available for transplant. Founded in 1921, Terumo Corporation (TSE:4543) strives to fulfil its mission of “Contributing to Society through Healthcare” by providing a comprehensive range of solutions in the fields of therapeutic procedures, hospital operations, and life sciences in more than 160 countries and regions.
The Senior Digital Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, securing, automating and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and the deployment foundations that support OrganOx’s digital products and connected device services. The role is primarily Digitalfocused, supporting software engineering teams with scalable environments, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, cybersecurity and reliable operational practices for regulated medical device software.
The role will also provide infrastructure and engineering support to the Data domain where shared platforms, cloud services, integration pipelines, Azure resources, SAP interfaces, Databricks environments, or high-throughput device and enterprise data flows require robust engineering input. The successful candidate will act as a practical bridge between Digital and Data, while retaining primary accountability for the Digital infrastructure, DevOps and cloud engineering responsibilities.
This is a hands-on senior role suited to someone who is comfortable working across cloud infrastructure, software delivery, automation, security, operational support, regulated digital product development and selective data-platform engineering.
This is an office based role in Oxford, with flexibility, to ensure stakeholder engagement with Engineering, Quality and other relevant business units.
Listed below are the major responsibilities of the role and a brief description of some of the key tasks to be performed. This list is not totally exhaustive.
Under direction from Digital leadership, and in close collaboration with the Data team, the Senior Digital & Infrastructure DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:
At OrganOx, we value innovation, evidence, integrity, teamwork, respect, and passion. We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including healthcare and retirement plans. We support work-life balance and provide opportunities for ongoing professional development.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation race, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Transforming transplantation with the OrganOx metra®. A transportable, automated ex vivo liver perfusion device.
The core technology employed by the OrganOx metra® has been in development for over 15 years. During this time both of the founders (Professor Peter Friend and Professor Constantin Coussios) have driven the development of organ preservation and maintenance, formerly at the University of Cambridge and latterly at the University of Oxford.
OrganOx Limited was founded in April 2008 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford.
Conventional cold preservation involves storage of the liver at 4˚C, using a non-physiological perfusion solution that aims to minimise liver decay. By contrast, warm preservation seeks to re-create an environment that mimics the human body by continuously perfusing at physiological pressures and flows with oxygen-carrying red cells at 37˚C and providing nutrition. The liver is therefore functional during the preservation period, producing bile, metabolizing glucose and maintaining a physiological pH. This enables objective assessment of organ performance prior to transplant, extended preservation times, and the potential use of organs that are presently being discarded.
