Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer (GCP)
Company: A scientific software and biotech company whose computational platform is used for drug discovery and materials research by biopharma, industrial companies, academic institutions, and government labs worldwide. The company also runs its own drug discovery programs.
Location: New York City (Midtown) or Portland, OR. Hybrid, in the office Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Job Description:
The IT team is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support and advance a fully implemented, mature Google Cloud environment. The role bridges development and operations and helps the company’s scientists and engineers use the cloud effectively, with attention to performance, cost, security, and compliance. The team works in an Agile environment without a dedicated scrum master, so this person will also drive projects, manage work in Jira, and lead change across the enterprise. The role reports to a Staff Cloud Engineer.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the design and architecture of cloud solutions that meet the company’s scalability, performance, and security requirements.
- Partner with technical and non-technical colleagues across teams to understand their needs and align cloud efforts and strategy.
- Help staff use cloud resources effectively, including scalability, performance, cost optimization, security, and compliance.
- Apply best practices in automation, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, logging, diagnosis, and troubleshooting.
- Manage projects from start to finish, including Jira management and Agile delivery.
- Create and improve internal standards, processes, and policies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and advocate for those that strengthen the company’s cloud capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience in an enterprise environment.
- GCP as primary and most recent cloud platform, with in-depth knowledge in a mature enterprise environment. AWS or Azure experience is a plus.
- Hands-on GCP networking experience, including Shared VPCs.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub/GitLab, and with automating change management through CI/CD.
- Strong networking, security, and data storage expertise.
- Scripting and programming skills in Python and Bash.
- Advanced Linux administration (Ubuntu, RHEL).
- Project management experience, with the ability to drive projects from 0 to 1.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or comparable professional experience.
Nice to Have:
- Nutanix experience.
- Data and storage management.
- Experience at a SaaS company or with a SaaS product.
- Some macOS and Windows administration.
- Experience in a compliance-heavy environment (ISO, SOX, GxP).
