Infrastructure Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Platform & Infrastructure role at Watershed Informatics. Cambridge · no salary stated · we estimate $118,725–$195,100 across the United States.
Watershed Informatics has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Build, operate and deploy enterprise infrastructure for large-scale biological data analysis
- Explore infrastructure technologies, then implement useful options or create improved solutions
- Connect infrastructure systems with the software that runs on them
- Track performance and capacity, investigate incidents and resolve unplanned technical issues
What you bring
- You have built infrastructure as code for a modern technical environment
- You understand virtualization, networking and Linux internals
- You approach infrastructure with a software developer’s mindset, creating tools when needed
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits an infrastructure engineer who can work across systems and software, communicate their reasoning and take ownership of their area. The role is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From the employer
About Watershed
Our vision is to become the leading biocomputing platform. The future of biology is in big data analysis, and we are on a mission to accelerate digital drug discovery with the Watershed platform. Watershed enables scientists to conduct all essential analysis — from lab data to plot — with a single software platform.
We have attracted some of the best bioinformatics, engineering, and commercial talent, and we are growing! Join a team that’s intellectually curious with a bias for action, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, composed of people who have come together to enable outcomes while empowering the research of all those committed to changing lives — all while bringing transformational change to a $40 billion industry.
Role
Infrastructure Engineers at Watershed engineer infrastructure to meet the high-performance computing needs of modern biology. Designing systems that keep pace with the explosive growth in the kinds and size of biological data, you will work in a containerized environment where our biocomputing platform and analyses run at scale. You will be tasked with engineering a new cloud experience while enabling our technology evolution in a disciplined way.
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and deploy an enterprise infrastructure.
- Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better
- Be the connection between systems and software
- Monitor system performance and manage capacity.
- Fix and analyze technical incidents, solve ad hoc technical problems.
Qualifications
- Experience composing infrastructure-as-code for a modern environment
- Demonstrate a software developer mindset, building tools when necessary
- Knowledge of virtualization, networking, and Linux internals
- Ability to clearly communicate your thoughts, ask the right questions, and defend your views
- Responsibility and ownership over your domain
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