Principal Dev Ops & Cloud Engineer

About Us
RCH Solutions is a rapidly growing global provider of computational science expertise within Life Sciences and Healthcare. At RCH, our team rallies around a culture crafted for learning and achieving. We’re relentless in our pursuit for innovation and demanding of ourselves to deliver a ground-breaking computing experience for our clients, so that they can deliver life-saving science to humanity.

Core Values
At RCH, our Core Values are more than just words—they represent the threads that weave together the fabric of our culture. Used as a guide when interviewing new team members; as a barometer when evaluating our performance as individuals and teams, and even when deciding which customers to work with, RCH’s Values embody the behaviors upon which we measure our success and create a framework for our growth as people and professionals.

Our Core Values:

• Embrace Excellence: We strive for best-in-class delivery of innovation and service.
• Be Accountable: Integrity, ownership and accountability are non-negotiable.
• Adventure Together: We are committed to fostering a culture that embraces continuous improvement.
• Succeed as a Team: We believe harnessing the power of a team drives outcomes not achievable by individuals.
• Boundaries and Balance: Work-life balance is a core facet of our culture.

If you share in our core values, then we encourage you to continue reading this posting as you may have found a great home for your career.

Job Description
RCH Solutions is seeking a Principal Devops/Cloud Engineer to join our growing Discovery Engineering team. This team is a center of excellence, defining standards and best practices for research computing, developing standard tooling, and migrating existing codebases to standard models.

You will work together with research scientists, providing them with scalable, secure, and efficient solutions to hard and onerous software engineering problems, allowing the scientists to concentrate on science, rather than things like service integration, containerization, database optimization, and cloud ops. You will partner with the data and analytics platform team to improve the capabilities of the infrastructure to support research use cases.

This is a hands-on role for people who enjoy untangling and re-engineering complex code bases, making hard integrations easy, and making other people's lives easier.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with scientists and informaticians on the development and upkeep of big data and high-performance workflows, especially using Nextflow and BigTable.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Azure DevOps.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native solutions, principally on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with a minor in Azure.
• Write clean, maintainable Python code and shell scripts to automate infrastructure tasks.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the stack, from cloud services to local environments.
• Develop, promulgate, and teach good infrastructure-as-code practices and DevOps standards.
• Work in concert with infrastructure engineers to improve platform capabilities in the interests of research.
• Easily adapt to new scientific domains and new technologies, producing best practices as you go.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Six-plus years of GCP experience, especially with BigQuery and Cloudrun, or 3+ years GCP and three-plus years of Azure or AWS experience, especially in automation.
• Six-plus years of DevOps experience, including containerization, CI/CD (GitHub actions preferred, Azure DevOps nice to have).
• Six-plus years of Python and shell scripting experience. Strong Java experience highly desired.
• Three-plus years of Terraform experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working in the Life Sciences industry
• Experience using automation tools and configuration management
• Nextflow pipeline development and deployment experience

Additional information
Great talent should benefit from a great work environment. If you join our team, you’ll have access to:

• A competitive salary and bonus package based on experience.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Company-provided Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
• Company-sponsored 401(k) Plan.
• Team-focused culture and unlimited opportunity for advancement.

**This is a hybrid role and the candidate must be available to be onsite in our client facility in Cambridge, MA at least 3 days per week.

**Role is only open to applicants not needing sponsorship now or in the future, no third parties please.