Senior Cloud Engineer

Position Overview

Adaptive Biotechnologies is on a mission to transform the diagnosis and treatment of immune-mediated diseases including cancer, autoimmune disorders and infectious disease through ground-breaking applications of DNA sequencing. A profound reduction in the cost of sequencing (moving faster than Moore's law in the past several years) has enabled the company to develop brand new approaches to measuring the most variable part of the human genome: the immune cell receptor genes.

Among other initiatives, we are developing a new clinical diagnostic product that uses proprietary immune cell receptor sequencing technology to measure the disease state of cancer patients in unprecedented detail.

Additionally, we have recently partnered with Microsoft in a multi-year collaboration involving Adaptive’s scientists and software engineers working closely with top Artificial Intelligence researchers in an effort to combine Adaptive’s innovative sequencing technology and Microsoft’s large-scale machine learning and cloud computing capabilities. This partnership aims to eventually lead to a universal map of the human immune system and the antigens the immune system fights; a map that will be key for the research and development of simple blood-based diagnostics that are broadly accessible to people around the world.

We are currently expanding our footprint into the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. This includes new technologies as well as migration of current production and development resources out of other cloud services into Azure. We are looking for an additional Senior Cloud Engineer to join our current team to help design and build a robust and scalable cloud infrastructure. Components include our bioinformatics infrastructure, customer facing front-ends, databases and associated security infrastructure. We currently enjoy the luxury of making design decisions without worrying about on-premise resources or other traditional considerations. We aim to make use of automation whenever possible (via Ansible), to achieve a level of efficiency and productivity beyond what traditional IT approaches enable. By working with us, you can have a direct and meaningful impact on the lives of many people facing decisions about their treatment, by putting cloud-based computer resources to good use.

Duties and Responsibilities

Design and Implement test, staging, and production systems and infrastructure in Azure

• Application Gateways
• PostgreSQL databases
• CentOS Linux Virtual Machines
• Load Balancers
• Blob Storage
• Azure Active Directory Services

Ensure security, stability, and operational efficiency of all systems and infrastructure

• Patch Management
• Monitoring
• Incident Response
• Automation and scripting (Ansible and Python)
• Backup and Recovery Management
• Disaster Recovery design and implementation

Support Development and Testing Engineering Teams

• Provide technical advice and support to software development engineers, scientists, and other staff
• Work with quality assurance and release management teams to ensure best practices around software releases.

Qualifications

• Education: BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Years of experience: 5+ years of relevant IT operations experience. Experience with designing and supporting highly-available, 24x7 production systems.
• Specialized knowledge and skills:
• Strong working knowledge and proven working experience in Linux, networking, storage and information security.
• Database Administration experience (primarily PostgreSQL).
• Experience working in Azure or Amazon Web Services.
• Solid experience in administration and troubleshooting application stacks (e.g. Apache, JBoss, Play Framework).
• A desire to apply skills in a rewarding and worthwhile industry.
• An ability to translate business and science requirements into IT solutions.
• Experience in healthcare use cases, handling HIPAA and FDA related considerations.
• Mastery of a major IT automation language, such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with DevOps in a cloud context, including supporting teams of developers.
• Professional Certification:  N/A

Working Conditions

• Primarily work in an office environment and work from home.
• Regular weekday work hours, with occasional weekend/after-hours planned or unplanned work as needed.
• Some travel based on team building events and project related work

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Compensation

Salary Range: $132,000 - $198,000

Other compensation elements include:

• equity grant
• bonus eligible