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Cloud-Native Scientific Platform Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Cloud-Native Scientific Platform Engineer
futureproof consulting
• Manage, optimize, and troubleshoot Nextflow pipelines for large-scale multi-omics workloads • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for cloud infrastructure and scientific workflow deployments • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) • Design and integrate AWS services like EC2, S3, ECS, Batch, RDS, KMS into production environments • Ensure security, compliance, auditing, and reproducibility of scientific compute workloads • Support and optimize high-performance computing jobs spanning on-prem HPC clusters and AWS • Improve the reliability and throughput of analytical workflows processing petabytes of data • Collaborate with researchers to translate scientific needs into robust engineering solutions • Contribute to the design of microservices enabling scientific data exploration and visualization • Help build distributed systems supporting FAIR data principles • Partner with cross-functional teams to solve complex engineering problems end-to-end
Job Requirements
- 5+ years in DevOps, CloudOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
- Solid experience with AWS services and cloud architecture
- Strong skills with Terraform
- Proficiency in Python
- Strong Linux fundamentals, troubleshooting, and automation mindset
- Ability to work with complex systems in distributed environments
- Exposure to bioinformatics, genomics, or multi-omics workflows (Nice-to-Have)
- Hands-on experience operating Nextflow pipelines (Nice-to-Have)
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm (Nice-to-Have)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Nice-to-Have)
- Understanding of FAIR data principles, GxP, and healthcare data standards (Nice-to-Have)
Benefits
- Work inside a globally recognized pharmaceutical leader
- Directly contribute to drug discovery and patient-impacting research
- Be part of a high-caliber engineering team solving complex real-world problems
- Operate at the intersection of cloud, HPC, software engineering, and life sciences
- Drive innovation using cloud-native technologies, microservices, and large-scale compute
- Fully remote within the EU
- Flexible B2B freelance contract
- Mission-driven work with world-class researchers
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