Cloud Engineer
Job Summary
Company Summary:
Quotient Therapeutics is a privately-held early stage company developing breakthrough medicines informed by natural somatic genetic diversity present in patients. Through our work in somatic genomics we are forging a new status quo for biopharma research and development across a broad pipeline of internal and partnered programs.
The company was founded by Flagship Pioneering an innovative enterprise that conceives creates resources and grows first-in-category life sciences companies. Flagship Pioneering has created over 100 groundbreaking companies over the past twenty years all of which are pioneering novel and proprietary biological industrial and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna (MRNA) Generate Biomedicines Sana Biotechnology (SANA) Tessera Therapeutics Evelo Biosciences (EVLO) Indigo Agriculture Seres Therapeutics (MCRB) and Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS).
Position Summary:
We are seeking a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to use their AWS/DevOps/SecOps skills to strengthen and evolve our Unified Digital Platform as we scale our genomics-first drug discovery operations. The candidate will join a collaborative Data Infrastructure team and work closely with biologists chemists informaticians and data scientists to ensure our compute data and application environments are secure reliable and designed for growth. They bring enthusiasm curiosity strong engineering discipline and a desire to build systems that support cutting-edge biological discovery. This role is based at the Chesterford Research Campus (vicinity of Cambridge) reporting to the Head of Data Engineering. Applicants require permission to work in the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with engineers and scientific stakeholders to evolve the cloud infrastructure that supports genomics imaging data pipelines and AI/ML applications across the company.
- Manage and extend our AWS environment using infrastructure-as-code (primarily CDK) enhancing reliability security and efficiency across accounts and services.
- Support secure scalable and cost-effective use of AWS services including EKS ECS EC2 Batch Lambda S3 RDS networking and IAM.
- Improve observability and operational awareness through logging alerting metrics and dashboards that help maintain system health and control costs.
- Contribute to CI/CD workflows and automation frameworks that underpin data engineering web applications and ML/AI systems.
- Strengthen our security posture by improving IAM practices monitoring auditing and compliance alignment in partnership with colleagues across the company.
- Partner with scientists software engineers and ML teams to ensure infrastructure supports modern lab-in-the-loop workflows high-throughput data ingestion and scalable analysis environments.
- Communicate technical decisions clearly and pragmatically to peers across scientific and engineering disciplines.
Requirements:
- Graduate or post-graduate degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- Three years or more of hands-on experience with cloud engineering including AWS services such as EC2 S3 IAM networking and container orchestration (EKS or ECS).
- A clear understanding of AWS multi-account architectures and their implementation and management.
- Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code (CDK CloudFormation or Terraform).
- Familiarity with observability tooling (CloudWatch Grafana or comparable stacks) and cost-awareness in cloud environments.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines containerization and DevOps automation.
- Experience integrating SSO identity platforms such as Okta/Entra.
- A security-minded approach including understanding of least-privilege IAM secure networking and compliance-related workflows.
- Strong collaboration skills and a pragmatic mindset suited to a fast-moving interdisciplinary biotech environment.
- Awareness of scientific workflows (bioinformatic cheminformatic microscopy/histology) including handling large data assets storage layouts and performance considerations for downstream analysis.
- Familiarity with common genomic data types such as BAMs VCFs etc..
- Experience navigating data governance and patient-confidentiality requirements in biomedical research including secure access patterns and auditability.
ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING
Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000 Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies have addressed humanity most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19 curing intractable diseases improving human health preempting illness and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.
Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE Change the World list an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company annual list of the World Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship Flagship we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.
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