Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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Job Description
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 35 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 Conceptions computational and data storage resources. In this role you will:
Maintain and extend existing GCPbased compute infrastructure for Conception.
Leverage Terraform Git flow and infrastructureascode best practices for lifecycle management of core infrastructure resources.
Apply software & security updates to all infrastructure components.
Maintain cloudbased 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.
Required skills:
35 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 industrystandard 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
Preferred skills:
Database administration experience especially PostgreSQL
Experience with SLURM or similar workload managers
General knowledge of networking
General interest in bioinformatics and biology
Proactivity around optimizing infrastructure for cost performance and security
Ability to communicate about infrastructure to a diverse audience
Languages: R SQL
Our mission
Conception is a startup with the mission to generate viable human eggs from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Successful development of our research could have many benefits such as removing age limits on motherhood allowing for easy screening of eggs with harmful genetic mutations and allowing samesex couples to reproduce. This has been done in mice and we are working to translate it to humans.
Come and work with us
We are wellfunded and connected in Silicon Valley offering competitive pay equity excellent healthcare benefits and a collaborative research environment focused on meaningful results.
If you are passionate hardworking and aligned with our mission we want to hear from you!
To learn more about us our mission and approach you can read two features published by The New Yorker and MIT Technology Review.
Employment Type
Full-Time
