GCP Cloud Engineer

RCH Solutions is a global provider of computational science expertise for Life Sciences and Healthcare. The company is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate Google Cloud Platform services supporting research and bioinformatics workloads. The role includes developing microservices and web applications, managing workflow orchestration for bioinformatics pipelines, integrating data systems, and driving cloud platform architecture and execution.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy microservices and APIs on Google Cloud Platform to support scientific and bioinformatics workloads
• Develop and maintain web applications that give researchers self-service access to data, pipelines, and compute
• Build, operate, and tune workflow orchestration for bioinformatics pipelines, including scheduling, error handling, and runtime and cost optimization
• Integrate cloud services, scientific applications, and internal and third-party data systems through well-documented, maintainable interfaces
• Ensure that all systems are compliant with company security standards and applicable regulatory requirements
• Troubleshoot operational issues as they arise on supported platforms, and escalate to other IT units as necessary

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering or software engineering, including production workloads on Google Cloud Platform
• Experience designing and deploying microservices, including containerization and REST or gRPC API development
• Experience with a workflow orchestration framework for scientific or data pipelines, such as Nextflow, Cromwell, Snakemake, or Airflow
• Demonstrated systems integration experience connecting cloud services, applications, and external data sources
• Web application development experience, either full stack or strong backend skills paired with working front-end proficiency
• Proficiency in Python and comfort working in a Linux environment
• Excellent communication skills, including preparation of written documentation for IT colleagues and scientific end users
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Bioinformatics, or equivalent work experience
• RCH Solutions is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-native services on Google Cloud Platform in support of research and bioinformatics workloads
• Hands-on experience supporting bioinformatics or computational biology workloads, such as genomics and NGS pipelines, structural biology, or cheminformatics
• Familiarity with GCP services including GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
• Proficient in building Docker images
• Experience with CI/CD for building and deploying containerized services
• R, or other programming languages common in scientific computing
• Has good knowledge of deploying or supporting GxP systems
• Git, BitBucket, or other version control tools
• This role is fully remote, and the candidate must be available to work on an East Coast time schedule
• Role is only open to applicants not needing sponsorship now or in the future