Senior – Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
| Company | Conception |
|---|---|
| Location | Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 3-5 years of prior experience as Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Data Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar. Startup experience preferred.
- Fluency in Terraform, Python, Bash
- Strong object-oriented programming skills and experience scaling computational pipelines
- Linux system administration in AWS or GCP
- Experience with standard container tooling (Docker, Singularity, Nextflow)
- Proactivity around optimizing infrastructure for cost, performance, and security
- Ability to scope and lead projects independently
- Ability to communicate about infrastructure to a diverse audience
- Proactivity around seeking input, gathering requirements, spotting potential problems, and unblocking others
- Comfortable wearing many hats
Responsibilities
- Maintain and extend existing GCP-based compute infrastructure for Conception.
- Leverage Terraform, Git flow, and infrastructure-as-code (Iac) 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 Django-based PostgreSQL database of biological sample metadata.
- Leverage Python to build and maintain serverless 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 with a focus on cost efficiency and scalability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Database administration experience, especially PostgreSQL
- General knowledge of networking
- Familiarity with CI/CD and industry-standard practices for deployment of new code
- General interest in bioinformatics and biology