Principle Cloud Engineer

Summary

Join Foresight Diagnostics, a venture-backed molecular diagnostics company, as a Principal Cloud Engineer. You will be a hands-on technical leader, designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud platform. Responsibilities include infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD automation, and collaborating with various teams. This remote-friendly position requires 10+ years of experience leading large infrastructure projects and expertise in cloud providers like AWS and GCP. The role offers a competitive salary ($190,000-$230,000), equity, and comprehensive benefits including paid time off, health insurance, and a 401k match. We encourage professional development and upward mobility for high-performing employees.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience
• Experience leading and shipping large infrastructure projects in collaboration with multiple engineering teams
• Expertise with public cloud providers such as AWS and GCP
• Proficiency with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes (k8s), Google Cloud Run, and AWS Fargate
• Proven track record in automating and managing infrastructure that is approachable by any engineering team
• Learners’ mindset, pragmatic approach to problem solving, and Passion for supporting and enabling teams to ship software quickly and without manual intervention
• Broad ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with many types of stakeholders
• Experience managing contractors and full-time employees as needed

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud architecture solutions that support and enable teams to deliver software quickly and consistently
• Create infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform to ensure consistency, scalability, and disaster recovery
• Collaborate with teams including software engineering, bioinformatics, and IT to build cloud-native solutions
• Implement and enable observability of cloud infrastructure, software, and bioinformatics pipelines through monitoring, alerting, and telemetry
• Automate the deployment and configuration process of software and bioinformatics pipelines
• Drive improvements in security posture through configuration management, secrets, and access controls to cloud resources
• Contribute to cost management strategies through resource optimization, data retention policies, and leveraging cloud tooling
• Manage contractors and full-time employees in the future

Benefits

• Salary between $190,000 - $230,000
• Equity offerings
• Paid vacation
• Sick time
• Parental leave (if applicable)
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401k with company match
• Professional development