Helix
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$148k-$190kDetected 43 days ago
PythonGoBashFull-Stack DevelopmentGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDCircleCILinuxDevOpsAgileOKRsBioinformaticsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- We invest in you through: Cutting-Edge AI Tooling: We equip our engineers to innovate at speed.
- You'll have full access to GitHub Copilot, frontier models (like Claude and OpenAI), Gemini, and other new tools as they emerge, all supported by our dedicated internal AI team.
Responsibilities
- As a Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud & Automation at Helix, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, and securing our critical cloud infrastructure that supports our platform.
- You collaborate closely with product managers, scientists, and other engineers to innovate and evolve our cloud infrastructure while ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
- you'll build your OKRs with your manager, start to take ownership of projects and initiatives on your team, and begin to demonstrate your impact on the Helix mission.
- Collaborate with product management, scientists, and engineering teams to understand intricate requirements and develop comprehensive, forward-thinking engineering designs.
- Spearhead the development and advancement of sophisticated CI/CD pipelines for highly automated, efficient, and resilient build, test, and deployment processes.
- You will be invited to live orientation sessions and spend time with your hiring manager developing your individual roadmap to success.
- Day 30 - 60: you'll spend time contributing to projects, deeply familiarizing yourself with team and company processes, and developing a deeper understanding of Helix's products, services and capabilities.
- Day 60 - 90: you'll build your OKRs with your manager, start to take ownership of projects and initiatives on your team, and begin to demonstrate your impact on the Helix mission.
- Lead the strategic evolution of our cloud infrastructure, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance support for product teams.
Requirements
- Experience integrating and utilizing AI-powered tools for proactive observability, cost optimization, and code analysis to improve cloud operations and development.
- Ability to evaluate and recommend new AI tools to enhance cloud operations and development workflows.
- 5+ years of in-depth experience in cloud computing, with at least 5 years of demonstrable expert-level experience with a broad range of AWS services and a deep understanding of cloud architectural patterns.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code tooling/frameworks - e.g., Terraform and CDK - at scale, including defining best practices and standards.
- A strong affinity for and proven ability to champion an engineering culture that emphasizes Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and continuous delivery practices across teams.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, including executive stakeholders.
Skills
- Sharpen your skills with full access to the entire Udemy learning database.
- Ready to make a real-world impact with your skills?
- Drive innovation in cloud infrastructure strategy.
- Champion and promote Cloud Engineering best practices across teams, influencing technical direction and standards.
Compensation
- $148,000 - $190,000
Benefits
- This experience will include sessions that cover your benefits, security & privacy training, an introduction to the OKR framework used at Helix and our communication tools and norms.
- What To Expect During Your First 90 days: First 30 days: you'll spend time learning the Helix way, completing training and onboarding for your roles, and getting introduced to your team and relevant stakeholders.
- Architect and implement highly reliable and massively scalable cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS and potentially other platforms, anticipating future growth and evolving user and health system needs.
- Ensure alignment with the long-term architectural vision.
- We want to make sure your first week is spent learning the foundations.
- First 30 days: you'll spend time learning the Helix way, completing training and onboarding for your roles, and getting introduced to your team and relevant stakeholders.
Company info
- to help everyone improve their lives through their DNA.
- At Helix, we're transforming healthcare by making genomics a standard of care.
- We partner with health systems and life science companies to accelerate the integration of genomic data into clinical practice.
- Join us in building a future where healthcare is personalized, proactive, and powered by genomics.
- Your Career Path & Development We are committed to your long-term growth.
- Learn from experts across our global team through tech demos, pair programming, and collaborative projects.
- you'll spend time contributing to projects, deeply familiarizing yourself with team and company processes, and developing a deeper understanding of Helix's products, services and capabilities.
- You'll also gain a deeper understanding of our customers, our products, the impact we make in the lives of our communities, and how to thrive at Helix through participation in Helix U.
This listing is sourced directly from Helix's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.