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About the role
This role sits at the intersection of cloud engineering and life sciences. The Director will bring both the technical depth of an experienced cloud architect and a meaningful understanding of the computational demands of biotech research — including genomics workflows, high-performance computing, containerized pipelines, and AI/ML infrastructure.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or DevOps, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership or engineering management role
- Deep expertise in AWS (preferred) and/or Azure, including compute, storage, networking, IAM, and managed services for data and ML
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating infrastructure for scientific or biotech workloads — genomics pipelines, HPC, -omics data processing, or equivalent
- Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS)
- Familiarity with bioinformatics workflow frameworks (Nextflow, Snakemake, WDL) and scientific compute environments
More about this role
Flagship Pioneering is a life sciences innovation enterprise that invents and builds transformative companies. Since its founding in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 ventures, including Moderna, and has deployed over $4 billion toward scientific discovery. Our Scientific Cloud team is the connective tissue that powers data and technology infrastructure across Flagship's growing portfolio of companies.
About Scientific Cloud: Scientific Cloud is Flagship Pioneering's portfolio-facing IT organization, responsible for the cloud engineering, data and informatics engineering, research systems, lab systems, and vendor management capabilities that power Flagship's emerging companies. The team operates with a portfolio-first orientation — building durable, shared infrastructure that individual ventures can rely on at every stage of company formation and growth.
The Director, Scientific Cloud Engineering is a senior technical organizational leader responsible for engineering the cloud and computational infrastructure that underpins scientific discovery across the Flagship portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director of Scientific Cloud, this individual will manage and lead a...
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