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Infrastructure Engineer at Watershed Informatics

Cambridge, MAFull-timeEngineeringPosted about 1 year ago

About the Role

<h3>About Watershed</h3> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <h3>Role</h3> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <h4><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></h4> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build, manage, and deploy an enterprise infrastructure.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Be the connection between systems and software</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Monitor system performance and manage capacity.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fix and analyze technical incidents, solve ad hoc technical problems.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Qualifications</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience composing infrastructure-as-code for a modern environment</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrate a software developer mindset, building tools when necessary</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge of virtualization, networking, and Linux internals</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ability to clearly communicate your thoughts, ask the right questions, and defend your views</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Responsibility and ownership over your domain</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</p>