Director, Scientific Cloud Engineering
Core
Lead engineering of cloud and computational infrastructure powering scientific discovery across a life sciences portfolio, managing teams and defining reusable platform standards.
Role type
Senior technical organizational leader (Director)
Builds
Scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure, HPC environments, and reproducible bioinformatics pipelines for portfolio companies.
Domain
Life sciences / Biotechnology / Cloud Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud architecture (AWS/Azure), Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), Container orchestration (Kubernetes), Bioinformatics workflow orchestration (Nextflow/Snakemake), Team leadership, HPC environment design, CI/CD automation, Data lakehouse patterns, AI/ML infrastructure design.
Preferred skills
Multi-tenant portfolio model experience, GxP/HIPAA/SOC 2 compliance, AI/ML platform operations (SageMaker/MLflow), Data lakehouse architectures (Delta Lake/Iceberg).
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor engineering teams including DevOps and bioinformatics; Architect cloud infrastructure and HPC environments; Design reproducible bioinformatics pipelines; Establish engineering standards and reusable infrastructure products; Partner with data and lab systems teams; Enable AI/ML capabilities for portfolio companies.
Seniority
Director, hands-on technical leadership
