Senior Cloud Computing Architect and Engineer

1 day ago


San Diego, California, United States InsideHigherEd Full time
Job Summary

The Salk Biocomputation Initiative is a cutting-edge research program that addresses the data-intensive demands of advanced biological research. As a Senior Cloud Computing Architect and Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and operating the administrative aspects of the Salk cloud-based infrastructure, incorporating a landing zone that includes network design, security, redundancy, account management, and role-based permissions for use by researchers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and operate the Salk cloud-based infrastructure, incorporating a landing zone that includes network design, security, redundancy, account management, and role-based permissions for use by researchers.
  • Collaborate with researchers to get maximum computational and storage value by intelligently using cloud options, including public and private clouds such as Amazon Web Services, Google, and Oracle, and public sector infrastructure such as the National Prototype National Research Platform.
  • Assist in maintaining and operating the Salk Science Network (SciNet) based on the Department of Energy's Science DMZ to move data to collaborators and public and private cloud providers.
  • Develop and maintain administrative dashboards to track cloud usage patterns, including tools for alerting on and/or interrupting anomalous workloads.
  • Manage vendor relationships, cloud contractual agreements, and billing tools with cloud providers; provide the best value and efficiency in proposals.

Requirements

Required:

  • Bachelor's Degree (BA) from a four-year college or university, and a minimum of three years of related experience.
  • Minimum four years of experience in cloud architecture, design, and development.
  • Current hands-on experience providing modernization to a platform utilizing AWS.
  • Minimum four years of direct software experience creating software containers, with a focus on Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Minimum four years of experience and deep knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their APIs, including popular storage, networking, security, and automated provisioning tools such as Terraform.
  • Extensive knowledge of AWS cloud technologies, including but not limited to S3, EC2, ECS, RDS, Glacier, EKS, and EBS.
  • Minimum four years of experience working with Python or other modern scripting languages.
  • Demonstrated experience developing business models with a focus on costs for data storage, including the analysis of moving data to and from the cloud.
  • Minimum four years of experience administering and working with Linux systems (CentOS/RedHat preferred), with a well-rounded knowledge of systems, networks, security, storage, and cloud products.

Preferred

Preferred:

  • Master's Degree (MA) or Ph.D. in computer science or other applied domain sciences (especially biological sciences) with a strong computational focus.
  • Experience with bioinformatics pipelines, development of biological sciences software, or other scientific software development.
  • Experience in an academic research or university environment.

What We Offer

The expected pay range for this position is $160,000-$200,000 per annum. Salk Institute provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the institute reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

Benefits

Salk Institute offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, patient advocacy services, and transit/parking program.

Salk Values

The Salk Community, both scientists and administrators, worked together to define values that we believe support Salk's pursuit of excellence. To be truly the best scientific institution requires not only incredible discoveries, but a common understanding of how we should work together to enable those discoveries.

The acronym 'I CARE' provides a simple way to remember each of the values and reminds each of us of the importance of what we do each day.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal access to opportunities for students, employees, applicants for employment and other visitors. Salk has also adopted and maintains a policy to encourage professional and respectful workplace behavior and prevent discriminatory and harassing conduct in our workplace.

Accordingly, the Institute prohibits harassment and discrimination in employment on the basis of, and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to, actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status (disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era, other covered veteran status), political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.



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