Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Remote

Overview

The position: (Senior) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (remote). Conception is looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team. The right candidate should have 3-5 years of experience in the field and demonstrated expertise working on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This individual will work closely with a talented team of bioinformaticians and will be responsible for the deployment, lifecycle, and stability of Conception’s computational and data storage resources.

In Short

• Maintain and extend existing GCP-based compute infrastructure for Conception.
• Leverage Terraform, Git flow, and infrastructure-as-code best practices for lifecycle management of core infrastructure resources.
• Apply software & security updates to all infrastructure components.
• Maintain cloud-based data storage infrastructure, ensuring data integrity and retention.
• Maintain and improve our PostgreSQL database of biological sample metadata.
• Build and maintain automated workflows to ensure timely data processing.
• Scope and lead a diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects to support the needs of bioinformatic and bench scientists at Conception.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of prior experience as Cloud Infrastructure Engineer or similar.
• GCP Cloud Associate certification, or better.
• Linux system administration.
• Languages: Terraform, bash, python.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and industry-standard practices for deployment of new code.
• Experience with schedulers or similar for task automation.
• Experience with standard container tooling (Docker, Singularity, Nextflow).
• Ability to scope and lead projects independently.
• Proactivity around seeking input, gathering requirements, spotting potential problems, and unblocking others.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and equity.
• Excellent healthcare benefits.
• Collaborative research environment focused on meaningful results.