Senior Cloud Engineer (Remote)

BioTeam is a well-established scientific computing consulting company that helps science and healthcare organizations cure diseases and save lives by making science and technology more accessible to them.  If you are passionate about having an impact on science and helping make the world a better place, and you also like problem-solving and working in highly collaborative, diverse, and creative teams of people, BioTeam is the place for you. We’re a highly employee-centric company that values a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cultures and the strengths that those differences bring to us as a company and the solutions we come up with for our clients. Our work is challenging but satisfying, and we have fun doing it. All roles at BioTeam are client-facing.

Working at the intersection of science, data, and advanced technology, BioTeam helps accelerate science by offering strategic and transformational professional services that support modern data-intensive research. Our clients hire us when they aren’t sure what to do next, making our engagements interesting, unique, challenging, and highly compelling. We offer services that cover advanced infrastructure for science, data science and strategy, software and analytics for science (including AI), and data production in laboratories. 

BioTeam is a mission-driven company that highly values its clients and works with them as strategic partners to help them succeed.  We focus primarily on life sciences, biomedicine, and healthcare, with a client list that includes government agencies, Fortune 500 pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as leading hospitals and research labs across the country. For more information about BioTeam and to see examples of our work, visit bioteam.net.

Our goal is to make our employees feel taken care of:

• Competitive base:  $140,000 - $155,000 (with potential for a bonus)

• Completely virtual organization, which means you can work remotely from your home office (when not traveling to client sites) *
• Opportunity to contribute significantly to a growing company with the potential for growth to a senior or leadership role
• 100% of your health & dental premiums for you & your family covered, effective day one
• 100% of your short-term, long-term disability and life insurance covered
• Employer contributes annually to 401K, effective day one

*BioTeam's roles are remote and can be filled within any of the following states: CA, CO, DC, FL, MA, MD, MO, NC, NH, NY, NJ, PA, TN, TX, WA, VA.

Job Summary

Are you a technology expert with a passion for modernizing IT infrastructure to support life sciences and healthcare research? Do you love solving complex technical and organizational challenges collaboratively with clients and team members? Do you enjoy leading diverse teams of smart and creative people? BioTeam has an exciting opportunity for you as a Senior Cloud Engineer!

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge, science-driven, Cloud-based technology solutions for our clients. From pre-sales scoping to design, implementation, testing, and maintenance, you'll help clients achieve their scientific mission with objective, technology-neutral infrastructure for science.

To excel in this role, you'll need to be a subject matter expert in Cloud technologies and practices. You'll work closely with clients to discover requirements and design, deploy, and manage advanced cloud-native data platforms, high performance computing (HPC) and storage systems, and other relevant computing infrastructure. Your deep curiosity about the latest advances in biomedical science and prior experience supporting scientific environments is a plus.

If you're passionate about collaboratively solving complex problems that advance science with custom technology solutions, apply now for the Senior Cloud Engineer role at BioTeam!

Key Responsibilities

Technical Expectations

• Develop solutions to address scientific computing needs that can work for either all-cloud or hybrid environments
• Communicate cloud and data platform design practices to help guide and influence scientific practices.
• Use modern cloud development practices, such as “infrastructure as code”
• Train scientists and technical professionals on cloud concepts and best practices related to scientific computing
• Provide thought leadership to the industry in the form of blog postings, whitepapers, and speaking engagements

Consulting Expectations

• Act as Cloud and Data Platform subject matter expert to provide day-to-day project coordination, planning, and implementation of multiple projects
• Participate in initial tech review calls and clarify specific requirements of each project, including project scope and objectives, budget, determining the necessary project resources, and technical feasibility 
• Lead or participate in the drafting of project proposals and manage the lifecycle of internal and client document review until the proposal is approved
• Troubleshoot a variety of issues and collaborate with team members on solutions
• Ensure successful delivery of solutions that meet client expectations
• Act as the technical point of contact for clients ensuring communication throughout the implementation and execution of a project

Background and Experience

• Degree in science or engineering fields, with a preference for a focus on bioinformatics, data architecture, or data engineering for life sciences or a related discipline; graduate degree preferred or a combination of education and experience
• 10 years of experience in software development with at least 5 years working in the cloud preferred

• Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and/or Microsoft Azure experience
• Cloud certification and/or certification in systems administration or a related field is a plus

• Extensive experience leading complex scientific IT projects and project teams 
• Passion for technology & science with a desire to stay up to date on the state-of-the-art in your field
• Excellent communication skills and the demonstrated ability to build rapport with both external clients and internal team members
• Organizational and time management skills with exceptional follow-through
• Proactive and innovative, able to adapt to change quickly
• Cognitive thinking skills that can assess and adapt to the various needs of a diverse stakeholder population
• Experience and desire to work remotely with approximately 25% domestic overnight travel 
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States and have or be able to qualify for government and customer security clearance

Work Environment

This job operates in an office environment, both in shared and home locations. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. 

Physical Demands 

This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to move files, open filing cabinets, and bend or stand as necessary.

The Company does not seek salary history information from applicants. The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, arrest record or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Salary : $140,000 - $155,000